. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . ns, foxes, and other wild creatures. Also, some had man-tles of the feathers ofbirds, quilled arti-ficially ; and sundryof them continue tothis day their old kindof clothing. Their weaponsheretofore were bowsand arrows, clubs andtomahawks, made ofwood like a pole axe,with a sharpenedstone fastened there-in ; and for defence,they had targets madeof barks of of latter years,since the English,Dutch, and Frenchhave trafficked withthem, they generallydisuse their formerweapons, and insteadthereof have guns,pistols, swords, rap
. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . ns, foxes, and other wild creatures. Also, some had man-tles of the feathers ofbirds, quilled arti-ficially ; and sundryof them continue tothis day their old kindof clothing. Their weaponsheretofore were bowsand arrows, clubs andtomahawks, made ofwood like a pole axe,with a sharpenedstone fastened there-in ; and for defence,they had targets madeof barks of of latter years,since the English,Dutch, and Frenchhave trafficked withthem, they generallydisuse their formerweapons, and insteadthereof have guns,pistols, swords, rapier blades, fastened unto a staff of the lengthof a half pike, hatchets, and axes. For their water passage, travels, and fishing, they make boats,or canoes, either of great trees, pine or chestnut, made hollowand artificially ; which they do by burning them ; and after withtools, scraping, smoothing, shaping them. Of these they makegreater or lesser. Some I have seen will carry twenty persons,being forty or fifty feet in length, and as broad as the tree will. Stone Hide Scraper, or a Squaws : Street. THE ABORIGINES. 83 bear. They make another sort of canoes of birchen bark, whichthey close together, sewing them with a kind of bark, and thensmearing the places with turpentine of the pine tree. Thesekinds of canoes are very neatly and artificially made, beingstrengthened in the inside with some few thin timbers and ribs •yet they are so light, that one man will, and doth, ordinarily carryone of them upon his back several miles, that will transport fiveor six people. When in their huntings or wars, they are to passfalls of rivers, or necks of land, into other rivers or streams, theytake up their canoes upon their backs, and others carry their armsor provisions; and so embark again, when their difficulty is past,and proceed in their journey or voyage. But these kind ofcanoes are much more ticklish and apt to overset, than the the Indians are so used to them,
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