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is here represented ; and, in our opinion, it would 

 differ only in name, if the master of slaves kept 

 them to work, and let them out at pleasure, he 

 also would give them food. 



The savage comes unthinkingly into the mis- 

 sion *, receives the food which is willingly offered 

 him, and listens to the instructions : he is still free. 

 But as soon as he is baptized, he belongs to the 

 church ; and hence he looks with pain and longing 

 to his native mountains. The church has an in- 

 alienable right to her children, and exercises this 

 right with rigour. 



The savage is inconsiderate and inconstant, like 

 a child. Work, to which he is unaccustomed, is 

 too difficult for him j he repents of the step which 

 binds him, and demands his pristine liberty. The 

 love of home, is, in him, a ruling passion. The 

 fathers allow their Indians, for the most part, twice 

 a year, a leave of absence for some weeks to visit 

 their friends, and their native place, t On occa- 



when they have perspired sufficiently, and then leap over it, and 

 plunge into the sea. A vapour bath, resembling the Russians 

 was formerly used by most European nations. Erasmus Ro- 

 terodamus Coll. Diversoria. Atque ante annos viginti quinque 

 nihil receptius erat apud brabantos quam thermae publicae, ex 

 nunc, frigent ibique, scabies enim nova docuit nos abstinere. 



* There is no fixed boundary to the different missions. The 

 Indian goes at pleasure from one to the other. 



f Two sick people, a man and his wife, whose end seemed to 

 be fast approaching, being unable to undertake the journey, 



