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place, and had left the (hells of the oyfters which 

 they had confumed, in fuch great heaps. But 

 others could not conceive how it happened that 

 they were thrown in fuch immenfe quantities all 

 into one place. 



EVER Y one is of opinion that the American fa- 

 vages were a very good-natured people, if they 

 were not attacked. No body is fo ftri6l in keeping 

 his word as a favage. If any one of their allies 

 come to vifit them, they {hew him more kindnefs, 

 and greater endeavours to ferve him, than he 

 could have expedted from his own countrymen* 

 Mr. Cock gave me the following relation, as a 

 proof of their integrity. About two years ago 

 an Englijh merchant travelling amongft the fava- 

 ges, in order to fell them neceffaries, and to buy 

 other goods, was fecretly killed, without the 

 murderer's being found out. But about a year 

 after, the favages found out the guilty perfon a- 

 mongft themfelves. They immediately took him 

 up, bound his hands on his back, and thus fent 

 him with a guard to the governor at Philadelphia, 

 and fent him word, that they could no longer 

 acknowledge this wretch (who had been fo wick- 

 ed towards an EngliJhmanJ as their countryman, 

 and therefore would have nothing more to do with 

 him, and that they delivered him up to the go- 

 vernor, to be punifhed for his villainy as the laws 

 of England direft. This Indian was afterwards 

 hanged at Philadelphia. 



THEIR good natural parts are proved by the 

 following account, which many people have 

 given me as a true one. When they fend their 

 ambafiadors to the Englifo colonies, in order to 



fettle 



