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contrive methods to tax the generofity of an Eu. 
ropean. ! 
The greateft part of thefe people never fail to 
defraud Europeans whenever it is in their power, | 
and take every method to over-reach them in the 
way oftrade. They will difguife their perfons | 
and change their names, in order to defraud them _ 
of their lawful debts, which they are fometimes 
permitted to contract at the Company’s Factory 3 
and all debts that are outftanding at the fucceflion 
of a new Governor are entirely loft, as they 
always declare, and bring plenty of witnefles to 
prove, that they were paid long before, but that / 
their oames had been forgotten to be ftruck out 
of the book. Bd 
Notwithftanding all thofe bad qualities, they 
are the mildeft tribe of Indians that trade at any 
of the Company’s fettlements; and as the great. 
eft part of them are never heated with liquor, are” 
always in their fenfes, and never proceed to riot, | 
or any violence beyond bad language. | 
The men are in general very jealous of their 
wives, and | make no doubt but the fame fpirit 
reigns among the women; but they are kept fo | 
much in awe of their hufbands, that the liberty | 
of thinking is the greateft privilege they enjoy. 
The prefence of a Northern Indian man ftrikes | 
a peculiar awe into his wives, as he always aflumes | 
the fame authority over them that the mafter of 
a family in Europe ufually does over his dome-— 
itic fervants. | 
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