OF THE FUR TRADE, &c. Xcix

is deftroyed, and the relations take in exchange for the wearing apparel,
any rags that will cover their nakednefs. The feaft beftowed on the

occafion, Which is, ox ot leat nfed to be. repeated annually. is accomnae
nied with eulogiums on the deceafed, and without any atts of ferocity. )

On fhe tomb are carved or painted the fymbols of his tribe, which are
taken from the different animals of the country.

Many and various are the motives which induce a favage to engage
in war. To prove his courage, or to revenge the death of his rela-
tions, or fome of his tribe, by the maflacre of anenemy. If the tribe |

. feel themfelves called upon to go to war, the elders convene the people,
in order to know the general opinion. If it be for war, the chief pub-
lifhes his intention to fmoke in the facred ftem at a certain period, to —
which folemnity, meditation and fafting are required as preparatory ce-
remonials. When the people are thus affembled, and the meeting fanc-
tified by the cuftom of fmoking, the chief enlarges on the caufes which
have called them together, and the neceffity of the meafures propofed
on the occafion. He then invites thofe who are willing to fol-
low him, to fmoke out of the facred ftem, which is confidered as the
token of enrolment; and if it fhould be the general opinion,. that
affiftance is neceffary, others are invited, with great formality, to join
them. Every individual who attends thefe meetings brings fomething
with him as a token of his warlike intention, or as an objet of dacrifice,
which, when the aflembly diffolves, is-fufpended from peles near the

place of council. °

They have frequent feafts, and particular circumftances never fail to
So eee produce