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length, confidering that, though I was going to 1770. 
_ the Factory, I fhould want a knife to cut my vic- 
tuals, an awl to mend my fhoes, and a needle to 
“mend my other clothing, they readily gave me 
- thefe articles, though not without making me 
underftand that I ought to look uponit asa great 
favour. Finding them pofleffed of fo much ge- 
nerofity, I ventured to folicit them for my ra- 
zors; but thinking that one would be fufficient 
to fhave me during my pafflage home, they made 
no fcruple to keep the other; luckily they chofe 
the worft. To complete their generofity, they 
permitted me to take as much foap as I thought 
would be fufficient to wafh and fhave me during 
the remainder of my journey to the Factory. 
They were more cautious in plundering the 
Southern Indians, as the relation of fuch outrages 
being committed on them might occafion a war 
between the two nations; but they had nothing 
of that kind to dread from the Englifh. Howe- 
ver, the Northern Indians had addrefs enough to 
talk my home-guard Indians out of all they had : 
fo that before we left them, they were as clean 
fwept as myfelf, excepting their guns, fome am- 
munition, an old hatchet, an ice-chiflel, and a file 
to fharpen them. 
It may probably be thought ftrange that my 
guide, who was a Northern “Hoda fhould per- 
mit his countrymen to commit fuch outrages on 
- thofe under his charge; but being a man of lit- 
_ tle note, he was fo far from being able to protect 
E US, 
Augutt. 
