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unman'd, that we are never afterwards able to be Madters of 

 half the Courage and Bravery nature designed for us, whilst 

 we remain in this World. Several instances whereof are 

 daily to be met with amongst us, which I omit as being For- 

 eign to what we treat of. l^ot but that the Indians have as 

 many lying Stories of Spirits and Conjurers as any People ; 

 but they never tell them with that disadvantage, or after that 

 frightful manner, that the Europeans are subject to inform 

 their Children. The old Men amongst them bring them- 

 selves into very great esteem by making the others believe 

 their familiarity with Devils and Spirits, and what great 

 advantage they have thereby, which if it once gain credit 

 amongst them, they are ever afterwards held in the gTcatest 

 respect and veneration imaginable ; and whatever they im- 

 pose upon these People for the future is received as certain 

 Truths. 



Some of them are so very poor, that they have no manner 

 of Cloaths, only a Belt and wad of Moss, to cover their 

 ISTakedness; these are such as are lazy, or will not Work or 

 Hunt, and are given to Gaming and Drunkenness ; yet these 

 get Victuals as well as the rest, because that is in common 

 amongst them all: If they are caught in Theft amongst 

 themselves, the Offender is made a Slave until such time as 

 he makes full satisfaction to the Injured Person ; but to steal 

 from the Christians they reckon no Crime, nor think any 

 harm in so doing; notwithstanding they are seldom guilty 

 of this Vice amongst themselves or the Christians. 



The Indians (as I observed before) are indefatigable and 

 expert Travellers in the Woods, and though they have not 

 the use of our artificial Compass to guide them, yet they are 

 never at a loss to find their way, and let them be in never so 

 great a Wilderness, they understand the North Point per- 



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