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timated to the line by a peculiar kind of hoot, which is impossible to describe, but with issues from the thorax by a sudden and violent compression of the muscles about the breast, and impinges forcibly upon the roof of the palate. The march is arrested. Every one looks out for the danger and puts himself in a posture of defence. If an enemy appears, prepared to give them battle, and not too powerful to be resisted, each one instantly betakes himself to the protection of a tree, or other fixed object, from behind which he can most securely annoy the foe, or defend himself. The party which is most powerful advances from tree to tree. The weaker retreats by the same degrees; endeavouring, however, at the same time to bear off with them as many of their wounded, and even of their slain, as they are able to carry with them. In this they discover sentiments of sympathy and honor towards their friends who have fallen, which would entitle them to the highest praise in the most civilized nations. The victors scalp the dead, and put to death the wounded whom their friends have been obliged to abandon, and who are no table to travel at the pace with which they find it necessary to retreat. For even the victors are obliged to retreat; otherwise

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they would be exposed to be cut off by the whole force of the hostile nation which would be roused upon them in consequence of the alarm created by the return of their vanquished warriors. But both parties return only to prepare new expeditions.
If they meet with no such opposition in their route they march in one body only to a certain distance. As they have no means of laying up magazines, or transporting provisions for large bodies of men, they are obliged, before they can enter on the territories of the enemy, to separate into small parties, both for the convenience of hunting, and for more effectually concealing their designs. They usually part under an agreement to meet at a preconcerted place in the vicinity of the town, or collection of wigwams which is the object of the expedition. This place they approach by various routes, with the utmost caution and secrecy; for if only one man be discovered the whole design is defeated. A small army can effect nothing against a nation apprized of its danger, in which every man is a warrior, and every warrior lives with his arms in his hands. And it is impossible by any address to conceal themselves when once the vigilance of their enemies is awakened. They are obliged to flee with the utmost precipita-