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ability to exercise the trades and occupations of a civilized 

 people, adding that he would incur the contempt and indig- 

 nation of his relatives, and of all those with whom he was 

 connected and acquainted ; Volney, 423. But a whole tribe 

 of savages would certainly abandon that state, if they found 

 lands cleared of woods on which they could settle, and a 

 possibility of procuring provisions. This is what in fact hap- 

 pened to some savage tribes on the banks of the Mississippi, 

 who in summer cultivate fields of Indian corn, and in win- 

 ter follow the chase, and may be said to retain nothing of 

 the savage but the name.* The CatFres, a Hottentot tribe 

 practise agriculture.j- The different tribes of wandering 

 Arabs, as often as they find a possibility of procuring pro- 

 visions in any district, take up their residence in it, and 

 adopt insensibly' a settled state, and the arts of cultivation ; so 

 true it is that the settled and cultivated state is that to which 

 mankind is naturally inclined.:); 



l6th. Our orator quotes an instance from the 5th vol. of 

 Prevost's history of voyages, of a young Hottentot, carefully 

 educated by the governor of the Cape of Good Hope, and 

 taught several languages, who on his return from a visit to his 

 parents restored his European cloaths, and fled with all 



speed 



• Page's Voyajjes, p. 22. Dub. Edit. 



f Thunberg's Voyages. Dodsley's Ann. Regist. for 1793, p. 287. 



; Vohiey's Travels in Syria, p. 236, 237. Dublin Edit. 



