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their own families. In defence of them they will. 
=. exert their utmoft influence; but when their own 
relations are guilty of the fame crime, they {el- 9) | 
dom interfere. This partial condu@ creates fome | 
fecret, and feveral open enemies; but the gene- 
rality of their neighbours are deterred, through 
fear or fuperitition, from executing their revenge, 
and even from talking difrefpectfully of them, un- 
lefs it be behind their backs; which is a vice of _ 
which almoft every Indian in this country, with- _ 
out exception, is guilty. 
Notwithftanding the Northern Indians are fo — 
covetous, and pay fo little regard to private pro- __ 
perty as to take every advantage of bodily ftrength _ 
to.rob their neighbours, not only of their goods, 
but of their wives, yet they are, in other refpects, 
the mildeft tribe, or nation, that is to be found _ 
on the borders of Hudfon’s Bay: for let their af- 
fronts or lofles be ever fo great, they never will _ 
feek any other revenge than that of wreftling. 
As for murder, which is fo common among all — 
the tribes of Southern Indians, it is feldom heard | 
of among them. A murderer is fhunned and de, 
tefted by all the tribe, and is obliged to wander 
up and down, forlorn and forfaken even by his _ 
own relations and former friends. In that refpect — 
a murderer may truly be compared to Cain, after — 
he had killed his brother Abel. The cool recep- | 
tion he meets with by all who know him, occa- | 
fions him to grow melancholy, and he never 
leaves any place but the whole company fay 
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