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live. The women had curiosity, perhaps, 'nd
even vanity. In a word, they were human, In
the pleasure of knowing that, one does not .op
to inquire whether it is wise to be human or ot.
 It is delightful to read of the living instincts
which were once here. Some old traveller-4in-
terested but disapproving tells of the luxury
visible inthe dress of the Indian women, and
mentions an instance of "female fondnefi of
drefs" which seems to him especially surpris-
ing. I observed," he says, that thewonen
dreffed their legs in a kind of leather fttck-
ings hung full of the hoofs of the roe detr in
form of bells, in fo much as to make a fOund
exactly like that of caftagnettes. I was Very
defirous of examining thefe ftockings, and had
an opportunity of fatisfying my curiofity on
thofe of my landlady at her return homer I
counted on one of her stockings four hundred
and ninety of thefe claws. There were ni e of
the women at the dance with this kind of drna-
ment; fo that, allowing each bf them to have
had the fame number of hoofs, and eight hoofs
to a deer, there muft have been killed even




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