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Account of
Chap. X.
War—Warlike Instruments—Enmity between two Tribes—Manufacture of their Mats and Tools.
Next in point of consequence to the arts, subservient to the purposes of existence, is that of war, of which I shall say a few words.
It did not happen during my stay here that any warlike operations took place among the natives: this, I conceive, was not the case, from the neighbouring chiefs being at peace with each other, as I believe those “piping times” are rarely known here, but that there did not occur any convenient opportunity for meeting in the field: it therefore cannot be expected that I can describe the “pomp and circumstance” of
