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will be found to have a deep and a strong foun- 

 dation, in their manner, custom, and habit of 

 living. Their constant method of living, was 

 on raw or boiled meat, and fresh water. This 

 did not satisfy the desires of nature ; and natu- 

 rally produced an appetite for every thing, 

 which was astringent, stimulating, and inflammi- 

 tory. When they met with ardent spirit, they 

 found that, which is the most highly gratifying 

 to such an appetite. The hardships and suffer- 

 ings to which the Indian v/as exposed, their 

 want of comfortable refreshments and support, 

 and the extremes of heat, cold, and mois- 

 ture, to which they Avere subject,, were constant- 

 ly adding new force, to an appetite already ex- 

 cessive. Few of the white people, who have 

 been reduced to such a situation for a few 

 months, have been able to preserve their tem- 

 perance. The Indian proved wholly inadequate 

 to the trial. Unaccustomed to lay any restraint 

 on his appetites and passions, and unable to 

 bear but a small quantity of the liquor, to 

 which he had been unused, he is overcome up- 

 on the first trial. His appetite, the more infla- 

 med by irregular enjoyment, becomes more 

 keen and raging, until extreme excess puts it 

 out of his power to indulge himself any longer. 

 Nothing but a total change of the whole method 

 of his living, will enable him to preserve that 

 temperance and regularity, which to a person 

 surrounded with all the comforts of life, is an 

 easy and a common attainment. 



Cruelty. There are no passions in the 

 human mind,which operate with so much force and 

 fxe.rcenessj as those of anger and revenge. The 



