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clays, during which the savages sang and danced three times a day. On the third day they sank a stake in the clearing in front of our fort and danccd around it after they had gone for M. d’l lybcrville in the following ceremonious manner: a savage offered his back to M. d’Hyber-ville, who mounted on the savage’s shoulders while another savage held both his feet; thus they carried him to the clearing about the stake, keeping in cadence to the sound of their chichicois, which are calabashes as big as one’s two fists, filled with small pebbles, and which, when shaken, make a rather mean little noise. They have another instrument, too, made of an earthen pot in the shape of a kettle, containing a little water and covered with a piece of deer skin stretched tight across the pot-moutli like a tambour; this they beat with two drumsticks, making as much noise as our drums.
When they had thus arrived before the stake, they laid M. d’Hyberville on the ground upon a deer skin, and made him sit on.it; and one of their chiefs, placed behind him, put his hands on M. d’Hyberville’s shoulders and rocked him as if he had been an infant needing sleep. Over the ground they had spread out more than three hundred deer skins, upon which the officers and the soldiers were placed. As soon as everybody was seated on these skins, the savages—with their bows and quivers made of the skins of otter or fox and carried on straps slung across their backs, and with wooden hcad-brcakers 18 held in their right hands—came so accoutered and struck the stake with their hcad-brcakers, telling at each blow whatever
18	The French word for this weapon, cassc-tctc, is often translated tomahawk. But these weapons, being wooden, arc more like clubs than hatchets.
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