408 The Natural Historic of North Carolina. 



To enlarge any more ujDon this Indian Jargon, would be 

 altogether needless, and troublesome to the Reader; thej 

 have such a strange way of abbreviating their Speech when 

 they are Debating in their grand Councils, that the young 

 Men do not understand what they say or treat of. It is to be 

 admir'd, what hath occasioned so many different Speeches as 

 they have ; for the three Xations whose Languages I have now 

 mentioned, are but a small distance from each other. These 

 Differences in their Speech frequently occasion Jealousies 

 and Fears amongst them, and are often the Motives of their 

 continual Wars with each other; and were it not for these 

 continual Feuds and Animosities amongst themselves, they 

 would be as happy a People, as to this Life, as any upon the 

 Earth. 



Fijsris 



