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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Journey into Indian Country

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which hung down below their hips, and
tyed together across their breasts, and on
their head they had a grim and Terrible
appearance, this false face, for so it was
called, was made as frightfull as nature
could invent, the hair on its head hang-
-ing forward and over the face; the Mouth gr
grinning, large, and much aside; the
nose, and Cheeks Wrinkled and very
Huge; the Eyes set around with tin to re-
-semble the uncommon stearing, and the
whole face painted red and black, each
of these Men had in their hands a stick
of about 8 Inches in length fastened
to a shell of a Water Tortise, the which
Shells had some small stones or other
hand substances in them, which made
a great rattleing: which noise was much
much increased by their reubbing
them against the Logs of a certain
house where they appeared to be sta-
-tioned as guards the whole conduct of these
Men were appeared to be truly frantick.
a large number of spectators at a consider-
-able distance surrounded the house where