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Englishmen, to teach them to make guns, and 

 ammunition, besides a great many other necessa- 

 ries, that are helpful to man, all which, they say 

 will be delivered to them, when that good spirit 

 sees fit. They do not believe that God punishes 

 any man either in this life, or that to come ; but that 

 he delights in doing good, and in giving the fruits 

 of the earth, and instructing us in making several 

 useful and ornamental things. They say, it is a 

 bad spirit, who lives separate from the good one, 

 that torments us with sicknesses, disappointments, 

 losses, hunger, travel, and all the misfortunes, that 

 human life is incident to. How they are treated 

 in the next world, I have already mentioned, and, 

 as I said before, they are very resolute in dying, 

 when in the hands of savage enemies ; yet I saw 

 one of their young men, a very likely person, con- 

 demned, on a Sunday, for killing a negro, and 

 burning the house. 



I took good notice of his behavior, when he 

 was brought out of the house to die, which was 

 the next morning after sentence, but he changed 

 his countenance with trembling, and was in the 

 greatest fear and agony. I never saw any person 

 under his circumstances, which perhaps, might be 

 occasioned by his being delivered up by his own 

 nation, (which was the Tuskeruros,) and executed 

 by us, that are not their common enemies, though 

 he met with more favor than he would have re- 

 ceived at the hands of savages ; for he was only 

 hanged on a tree near the place where the mur- 



