Note 4 — CHAP. XXIV.

I remember to have seen an Indian youth, whose name was Weekee, at Bergen-op-Zoom, where he was brought over from the colony Berbicè with General Desalve, who cloathed and partly civilized him: amongst other things, he learned cookery, and to be something of a taylor, at his own request, that he might be enabled to provide both for his back and his belly. After some time however, expressing a desire to return to the colony, he no sooner touched American ground, than stripping himself of his lumber, he launched naked into his native woods, where he ended his days as he had begun them, amongst his beloved countrymen and companions; like the Hottentot mentioned by Rousseau, in his celebrated Discours sur l’Inegalité & Conditions, &c.——But to return to the girl:—She had with her a live parrot, which she had stunned with a blunt arrow from her bow, and for which I gave her a double-bladed knife4. So wonderfully expert are the Arrowouka Indians at this exercise, that they frequently bring down a macaw in full flight, or even a pigeon.