25^ TRAVELS through 



** with the Europeans, who will bring us what 

 *' we want, in order to maintain our women and 

 " children." 



The Americans in general have no knowledge 

 of letters. The art of writing is unknown to 

 them. They are furprlfed to fee that one can 

 converfe with another at a great diftance by a 

 paper ; and they look upon the mifTive letters 

 with admiration. When they are trufted with 

 letters, they bring them very exadly to the per- 

 fons they are directed to •, and though it Ihould 

 rain ever fo hard, and they had a great many 

 rivers to pafs, thofe letters are never wetted. 

 The Allihamons trade with the French^ Englijli^ and 

 Spaniards^ but they do not love the latter much ; 

 they make war upon them fooner than upon 

 any other nation, on account of their cruelties 

 towards the Mexicans -^^ their memory is admira- 

 ble, they always remember the wrong which is 

 done to them. 



Thofe whom I fbeak of here acknowledge a 

 Supreme Being, whom they call Soulhiechc. 1 

 afked them, what they thought of the other 

 world ', and they anfwered, that if they have 

 not taken another man'-s wife, or if they have 

 not robbed nor killed any one during their life, 



they 



