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This arbitrary proceeding, with refpe6t 

 to their own families, is not peculiar to 

 this people only. I have had occafion 

 to obferve it in more inftances than this 

 I have mentioned, among many other 

 nations of favages I have fince feen. 



Thefe Indians are of a middling fta- 

 ture, well fet, and very adlive j and make 

 their way among the rocks with an 

 amazing agility. Their feer, by this 

 kind of exercife, contract a callofity 

 which renders the ufe of flioes quite un- 

 necefTary to them. But before I conclude 

 the few obfervations I have to make on 

 a people fo confined in all their notions 

 and practice, it may be expedted I fhould 

 fay fomething of their religion ; but as 

 their grofs ignorance is in nothing more 

 confpicuous, and as we found it advife- 

 able to keep out of their way when the 

 fits of devotion came upon them, which 

 is rather frantic than religious, the 

 reader can expeft very little fatisfa&ion 



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