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Leon far from being like thofe I have above defcribed, 
that it is very uncommon to hear of their ever 
June. 
A JOURNEY TO THE 
The Northern Indian women are in general fo 
been guilty of incontinency, not even thofe who 
are confined to the fixth oreven eighth part of a 
man. 
It is true, that were I to form my opinion of © 
thofe women from the behaviour of fuch as I have 
been more particularly acquainted with, I fhould 
have little reafon to fay much in their favour; but 
impartiality will not permit me to make a few of - 
the worft characters a ftandard for the general — 
conduct of allofthem. Indeed itis but reafonable 
to think that travellers and interlopers wiil be al. 
ways ferved with the moft commodious, though — 
perhaps they pay the beft price for what they haves — 
It 
Learn’d from the heart, unknowing of difguife, 
Truth in her thoughts, and candour in her eyes; 
Stranger alike to envy and to pride, 
Good fenfe her light, and Nature all her guide ; 
But now removed from all the ills of life, 
Here refts the pleafing friend and faithful wife. WABLERe 
Her father was, undoubtedly, very blamable for bringing her up in the © 
tendex manner which he did, rendering her by that means not only inca- 
pable of bearing the fatigues and hardfhips which the reft of her countty= . 
women think little of, but of providing for herfelf. This is, indeed, too 
frequent a practice among Europeans in that country, who bring up their 
children in fo indulgent a manner, that when they retire, and leave their ~ 
offspring behind, they find themfelves fo helplefs, as to be unable to pro-= 
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vide for the few wants to which they are fubjeét. The late Mr. Ferdinand — 
Jacobs, many years Chicf at York Fort, was the only perfon whom 1 ever 
knew that aGed in a different manner; though no man could poffibly be 
fonder of his children in other refpects, yet as there were fome that he 
could not bring to England, he had them breught up entirely among the 
natives; fo that when he left the country, they fcarcely ever felt the lofsy 
thongh they regretted the abfence of a fond and indulgent parent. . 
