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yet viade will Authorize, and if any take offence at what 

 is said about the Indians and their wanton and lascivious 

 manner of living, I hope they will Judge of every Passage 

 with due deference to good Authority of the most knowing 

 and substantial Planters in those Parts. And consider that 

 the nature of the Work recjuired my being somewhat par- 

 ticular, in order to shew the good and bad Qualities of these 

 poor Creatures, who at present have no' light or benefit of 

 the Gospel. 



And had we- been as careful as the Spaniards and French, 

 in sending over proper Missionaries to Instruct these Tniser- 

 able People, we shoud never have had occasion to give this 

 Relation of them. Besides if these Methods had been put in 

 practice, we undoubtedly had been better informed and ac- 

 quainted with the many hidden Secrets in this part of the 

 World, which these People are ivell aquainted with, and 

 which they never will make known to us till they are In- 

 structed in the Christian Faith, and have intirely abolished 

 the many Idolatrous Customs and Practices still prevailing 

 amongst them. 



I have viewed not only most part of the Lands Inhabited 

 by the Christians, but likewise vast spacious Tracts lying 

 betwee7i them and the Mountains, from whence our noblest 

 Rivers have their rise, running for several hundreds of Miles 

 towards the Ocean, while they water and adorn as pleasant 

 and fertil a Country as any in Europe, the greatest part 

 vjhereof is only inhabited by Savage Indians, who covet a 



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