STUDY VII. 135 



'' they are left at perfed liberty to do juft what 

 " they pleafe, and to take their own way in every 

 ** cafe, without any apprehenfion of reproof what- 

 " ever. It is, accordingly, a moft aflonifhing ap- 

 " pearance, and what has often excited admira- 

 *' tion in myfelf, and many others," (and with 

 good reafon) " the children hardly ever do any 

 ** thing that can difpleafe their parents; on the 

 *^ contrary, they are at pains to do every thing 

 " which they know, or imagine, will be agree- 

 " able to them *" He afterwards prefents a very 

 favorable portrait of their phyfical and moral 

 qualities. 



His teftimony is confirmed by John de Lery^ as 

 far as it refpeds the Brafilians, whofe manners 

 arc the fame, and who are in the near neighbour- 

 hood of that illand. I beg leave to produce an- 

 other, that of Anthony Biet^ Superior of the Mif- 

 fionary Priefts, who, in the year 1652, went over 

 to Cayenne, another colony loft to us from the 

 fame caufes, and fince indifferently fettled. It is 

 on the fubjeâ: of the children of the Galibis 

 Savages -f-. 



* Hiftory of the miflion of Capuchin Fathers to the Ifland 

 of Maragnan, chap, xlvii. 

 t Voyage to the Equinoftial Countries, book iii. page 390. 



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