. Une histoire des États-Unis d'Amérique, de ses habitants et de ses institutions. Contrairement à l'aviron, le canoë-manfaced avant. Devoirs des hommes et des femmes.-l'Indianman n'a pas de travail. La chasse et la lutte contre le werehis que des devoirs, et tous les travailleurs dans le village a été laissé à l, qui plantait et enfouit le maïs, faites le cerf-vêtements en peaux, et cuit les aliments. Le feu a été produite bytwirling la fin d'un stick rapidement sur un morceau de bois sec.Les hommes ont fait leurs armes, se livraient à des danses andmimic batailles, et étaient très versés dans les arts de la chasse andwar. C'était leur coutume de se retirer toutes leurs cheveux excepta lo

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. A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions. Unlike the rower, the canoe-manfaced forward. Duties of Men and Women.—The Indianman did no work. Hunting and fighting werehis only duties, and all labor in the village was left to thewomen, who planted and hoed the corn, made the deer-skin clothing, and cooked the food. Fire was produced bytwirling the end of a stick rapidly on a dry piece of wood.The men made their weapons, indulged in dances andmimic battles, and were skilled in the arts of hunting andwar. It was their custom to pull out all their hair excepta lock on the crown of the head. This, called the scalp-lock, was left in order that an enemy, if able to kill thewarrior in battle, might pluck off his scalp as a trophy ofvictory. Methods of Warfare.—In war the Indians were fierceand cruel. They did not favor open fighting, but preferredto practise stratagem. It was their habit to steal upontheir enemies through the forest, creeping or lying in wait. Indian QuiverAND Boav-Case. THE INDIANS, CHARACTERISTICS AND CUSTOMS. 33. An Indian Shield. and seeking to take them by surprise. They became re-markably skilful in following a trail, —that is, in tracingthe passage of men or animals by the faintmarks of their foot-prints, by broken leavesand twigs, and other marks only visible towell-trained eyes. They were equally skil-ful in concealing their own trails. Ferocity in War.—The Indians had nomercy on their foes. They often sought totake prisoners, but only that they might putthem to death by torture. It was their de-light to make the captives suffer the utmostpain, they being tortured as they were slowlyburned to death. The prisoner, on the other hand, felta pride in bearing pain without flinching, and treated hisfoes with contempt and derision. He sometimes pro-voked them by his insults to kill him without furthertorture. In some cases a prisoner escaped death by beingadopted into the tribe, by a mother who had lost her son, or

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