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as they do, when tlieir ways are commonly quite 

 contrary to ours. I believe, they are, as to this life, 

 a very happy people ; and were it not for the feuds 

 amongst themselves they would enjoy J;he happi- 

 est state, in this world, of all mankind. They met 

 with enemies when we came amongst them ; for 

 they are no nearer Christianity now, than they 

 were at the first discovery, to all appearance. 

 They have learned several, vices of the Europeans, 

 but not one virtue, as I know of. Drunkenness 

 was a stranger, when we found them out, and 

 swearing their speech cannot express ; yet those 

 that speak English, learn to swear the first thing 

 they talk of. It's true, they have some virtues 

 and some vices ; but how the Christians can bring 

 these people into the bosom of the church, is a 

 proposal that ought to be formed and followed by 

 the wisest heads and best Christians. After I have 

 given one remark or two farther, of some of their 

 strange practices and notions, I will give my opin- 

 ion, how I think, in probability, it may be, if pos- 

 sible, effected, and so shall conclude this treatise 

 of Carolina. 



They are a very craving people, and if a man 

 give them any thing of a present, they think it 

 obliges him to give them another ; and so on, till 

 he has given them all he has ; for they have no 

 bounds of satisfaction in that way ; and if they 

 give you any thing, it is to receive twice the value 

 of it. They have no consideration that you will 

 want what you give them ; for their way of living 



