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A JOURNEY TO THE 
refpect to the arts and tricks of Indian jugglers, 
yet he could by no means be imprefled with a be. | 
lief of any part of our religion, nor of the religi- 
on of the Southern Indians, who have as firma 
belief in a future ftate as any people under the 
Sun. He had fo much natural good fenfe and | 
liberality of fentiment, however, as not to think 
that he had a right to ridicule any particular fee 
on account of their religious opinions. On the 
contrary, he declared, that he held them all equal- | 
ly in efteem, but was determined, as he came in. © 
to the world, fo he would go out of it, without f 
profeiling any religion at all. Notwithftanding 
his averfion from religion, I have met with few 
Chriftians who poflefled more good moral qua | 
ties, or fewer bad ones. | 
It 1s impoflible for any man to have been more 
punctual in the performance of a promife than he 
was; his fcrupulous adherence to truth and ho- 
nefty would have done honour to the moft en- 
lightened and devout Chriftian, while his benevo- 
lence and univerfal humanity to all the human. 
race*, according to his abilities and manner of 
life, 
j 
*{ muft here obferve, that when we went to war with the Efquie 
maux at the Copper River in July 1771, it was by no means his propofal: 
on the contrary, he was forced into it by his countrymen. For I have 
heard him fay, that when he firft vifited that river, in company with | 
¥-dot-le-aza, they met with feveral E(quimaux; and fo far from killing — 
them, were very friendly tothem, and madethem fall prefents of fuch i 
articles as they could beft fpare, and that would be~of mott ufe to them. | 
Tt is more than probable that the two bits of iron fouad among the plun- | 
; der 
