. Camps and firesides of the revolution . ropes madeof the plaited husks of Indian corn. I cannot recollectthe whole of his dress, but it was equally carried in one hand a long staff, in the other acalabash gourd with smallstones in it, for a rattle;this he rubbed up anddown his staff. He would sometimeshold up his head and makea hideous noise like thebraying of a donkey. Hecame in at the further end,and made this noise at first,whether it was because hewould not surprise us toosuddenly I cant say. Iasked Conrad Weiser, whoas well as myself lay nextthe alley, what noise thatwas? and
. Camps and firesides of the revolution . ropes madeof the plaited husks of Indian corn. I cannot recollectthe whole of his dress, but it was equally carried in one hand a long staff, in the other acalabash gourd with smallstones in it, for a rattle;this he rubbed up anddown his staff. He would sometimeshold up his head and makea hideous noise like thebraying of a donkey. Hecame in at the further end,and made this noise at first,whether it was because hewould not surprise us toosuddenly I cant say. Iasked Conrad Weiser, whoas well as myself lay nextthe alley, what noise thatwas? and Shickalamy theIndian chief, our compan-ion, who I supposed,thought me somewhatscared, called out, Liestill, John. I never heardhim speak so much plainEnglish before. The jack-pudding presently came up to us, and anIndian boy came with him and kindled our fire, thatwe might see his glittering eyes and antick postures We say anticas he hobbled round the fire. Sometimes he would ° antastlCiturn the buffaloes hair on one side that we might. AN INDIAN 76 The Indians [No. 26 Phiz=face. take the better view of his ill-favored phiz. Whenhe had tired himself, which was sometime after hehad well tired us, the boy that attended him strucktwo or three smart blows on the floor, at which thehobgoblin seemed surprised, and on repeating themhe jumped fairly out of doors and disappeared. I suppose this was to divert us and get some to-bacco for himself, for as he danced about he wouldhold out his hand to any he came by to receive thisgratification, and as often as any one gave it hewould return an awkward compliment. By this timeI found it no new diversion to any one but myself;and after the farce we endeavored to compose our-selves to sleep. 26. Esquimaux and their Children By William Douglass (1749) Douglass The Esquimaux are a particular kind of American was a New savages, who live onlv near the water, and never far England doc- ° tor who wrote in the country, on Terra Labrador, betw
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