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men in the firft ages of civil life. The people of Hifpaniola, when 

 the Spaniards firft came among them, were, as we are informed by 

 Charlevoix, a humane, kind, and hofpitable people j and without 

 citing more examples, I believe it to be true what Captain Cook 

 faid to the late Sir John Pringle, * That all thofe we call favages, a- 



* mong whom he was, were kind and hofpitable, (unlefs where they 



* were provoked, by ill treatment, to be otherwife), with the highefl 



* fenfe of what is honourable and praife- worthy.' 



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