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and scldome immoderately grieving at Misfortunes in Life, 

 excepting it be the loss of their nearest Relations. 



By the Fruitfnlness of the Women in North Carolina, and 

 the great lumbers of Men, Women, and Children, that are 

 daily Transported from Europe, they are now become so pow- 

 erful, in this and most of the other Provinces in the Hands of 

 the English, that they are able to resist for the future any 

 attempts the Indians may make on them. Add to this, the 

 several Indian Kings that at present are in the Christian In- 

 terest, who pay some small Tribute as an Acknowledgment of 

 their Subjection, and are ready upon all occasions to assist 

 them when ever they are required so to do; therefore they 

 live at present without any dread or fear of those Savages to 

 what they formerly did. 



The Men are very ingenious in several Handycraft Busi- 

 nesses, and in building their Canoes and Houses ; though by 

 the richness of the Soil, they live for the most part after an 

 indolent and luxurious Manner; yet some are laborious, and 

 equalize with the Negro's in hard Labour, and others quite 

 the Reverse; for I have frequently seen them come to the 

 Towns, and there remain Drinking Rum, Punch, and other 

 Liqnors for Eight or Ten Days successively, and after they 

 have committed this Excess, will not drink any Spirituous 

 Liquor, 'till such time as they take the next Frolich, as they 

 call it, which is generally in two or three Months. These 

 Excesses are the occasions of many Diseases amongst them. 

 But amongst the better Sort, or those of good OEconomy, it is 

 qnite otherwise, who seldom frequent the Taverns, having 

 plenty of Wine, Rum, and other Liquors at their own Houses, 

 which they generously make use of amongst their Friends 



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