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such relations generally approach truth and nicety, 

 we shall find very few of them worthy of enter- 

 tainment ; and as for the other part of the volume, 

 it is generally stuffed with invectives against the 

 government they lived under, on which stage is 

 commonly acted greater barbarities, in murdering 

 worthy men's reputations, than all the savages in 

 the new world are capable of equalizing or so much 

 as imitating. 



And since I hinted at a regulation of the sav- 

 ages, and to propose a way to convert them to 

 Christianity, I will first particularize the several 

 nations of Indians that are our neighbors, and then 

 proceed to what I promised. 



Tuskeruro Indians are fifteen towns, viz: Haruta 

 Waqui, Contah-nah, Anna'^Ooka, Conauh-kare Ha- 

 rooka, UnaNauhan, Kentanuska,Chunaneets,Ken- 

 ta,Eno, Kaur-hegh-ne, Oonossoora, Tosneoc, Nbna- 

 wharitse, Nursoorooka, fightingmen, 1200 ; Woe- 

 con towns, 2; Yupwauremau, Tooptatmeer, fight- 

 ingmen, 120; Machapunga town, 1, Maramis- 

 keet, fighting men, 30 ; .Bear River town 1, 

 Raudauqua-quank, fighting men 50 ; Maherring 

 Indians, town 1, Maherring River, fighting men, 

 50 ; Chuwon Indians, town 1 ; Bennett's Creek, 

 fighting men, 15 ; Paspatank Indians, town, 1 ; 

 Paspatank River, fighting men, 10 ; Poteskeit, 

 town, 1 ; North River, fighting men, 30 ; Notto- 

 way Indians, town 1; Winoack Creek, fighting men, 

 30 ; Hatteras, town 1 ; Sandbanks, fighting men, 

 16; Connamox Indians, towns 2 ; Coramne, Ra- 



