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Some gartered their trousers with thongs of leather, others used elegant bands of bead-work the gifts, probably, of sorrowing sweethearts, sisters, or mothers while the fire-bags, besides being composed some of blue, some of scarlet cloth, were ornamented more or less with flowers and fanciful devices elegantly wrought in the gaily-dyed quills of the porcupine.
Jean Baptiste showed his Indian origin by his long, Jewish-like countenance, dark eyes, and raven black hair. He was dressed in skins, the hair being inside, in spite of the heat, his leggings and waistcoat ornamented with bead-work and gaily-dyed porcupine quills, and mingled with coloured fibres and worsted. "I slept in Jack's cart, and just at daybreak Baptiste came and roused me up.
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