Chace on which occasions their Tents which are made small and in the shape of a Sugar loaf for the accommodation of a family or two are now made capacious enough to contain the people of a whole Tribe and in the form of the Roof of a house placed on the Ground. In this spacious Hall those good folks eat and drink caper and Grunt until tired. But what affords the greastest fund of Merriment and loud pales of Laughter is the unexpected tho' not unwelcome report from a Leather Gun. And the wit of the Company is displayed in the different constructions put upon the purport of the filthy Messenger's visit. They all dance at once the women on one and the men on the opposite side of the Wigwam while the greatest man beats the Drum & sings to which they keep time a very easy matter as the musician keeps continually repeating the same Note and the Dancers hopping the same step and grunting at every jerk like so many hungry Pigs[.]

An unmarried woman must never touch a Nascapee's Gun. This

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