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noble deeds they had done in war, and more besides. All of them, women as well as men, are permitted to do the same thing and to accuse one another of telling big lies.
The French then went to the King’s warehouse by order of M. d’Hyberville and brought knives, glass beads, vermilion, guns, lead, powder, mirrors, combs, kettles, cloaks, hats, shirts, braguets,19 leggings, rings, and other such trinkets. The braguets, made from five quarters of cloth cut in two lengthwise, are worn in front of the body and fuass between the thighs, thus covering their nakedness. The leggings arc made each one from half an ell of cloth cut in two and sewed like a stocking. Through these they stick their legs. The savages were also given axes and picks. After this M. d’Hyberville went off to his quarters, leaving the savages before the fort dividing the presents and examining them with astonishment, not knowing the uses of the greater part of them. We took keen pleasure in watching their bewilderment. Someone told M. d’Hyberville, who came back to the clearing before the fort with the other officers. He could not keep from laughing. He commanded that the use of each article be demonstrated to them. Thereupon their shirts were put on them, and their braguets and their hats; their leggings were stitched together and put upon their legs, as our Canadians, of whom I have already spoken, were familiar with such things. Some powder was put in the powder pans of the guns that had been given them; these were cocked and then fired. But when they saw the powder catch fire, they threw out their arms, dropped the
10 A loin flap for a man or a kind of apron for a woman. Cf. French braguelte, the codpiece or fly of a man’s brecchcs.