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laughing ♦, for he thought he was poifoned j M. 

 Auhcrt ordered a bottle of brandy to be brought 

 and bid him take a good draught, affuring him 

 that he would be cured immediately. 



The Kawjtas are very referved towards 

 Grangers in matters of religion ; they never 

 fpeak in public till they have reileded fulBci- 

 ently on what they are going to fay. 



Thefe people annually hold a general affembly 

 in the principal village of their nation j there is 

 a great hut for that purpofe, in which every one 

 takes place according to his rank, and has a right 

 to fpeak in his turn *, according to his age, abi- 

 lities, wifdom, and the fervices he has done his 

 country* 



The grand chief of the tribe opens the fefTion 

 by ^ fpeech, which concerns the hiilory or tra- 

 dition of their country -, he tells the military ex- 

 ploits of his anceftors, who have diftinguifhed 

 ' thcmfelves in defence of their country, exhort- 

 ing his fubjeds to imitate their virtues, in fup- 

 porting the wants and miferies of human life 



with 



'^ The Indians difapprove of the European habit of fpeak- 

 In^jall together in an afTi-mbJ^-. 



