90 OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



The next day, having some occasion to write, 

 the Indian king who saw me, believed that he 

 could write as well as I. Whereupon I wrote a 

 word, and gave it to him to copy, which he did 

 with more exactness than any European could 

 have done that was illiterate. It was so well that 

 he who could read mine, might have done the 

 same by his. Afterwards he took great delight 

 in making fish hooks of his own invention, which 

 would have been a good piece for an antiquary to 

 have puzzled his brains withal, in tracing out the 

 characters of all the oriental tongues. He sent 

 for several Indians to his cabin to look at his han- 

 dy work, and both he and they thought I could 

 read his writing as well as I could my own. I had 

 a manual in my pocket that had king David's 

 picture in it, in one of his private retirements. 

 The Indian asked me who that figure represented. 

 I told him it was the picture of a good king, that 

 lived, according to the rules of morality, doing to 

 all as he would be done by, ordering all his life 

 to the service of the Creator of all things ; and 

 being now above us all in heaven, with God Al- 

 mighty, who had rewarded him with all the de- 

 lightful pleasures imaginable in the other world, 

 for his obedience to him in this. I concluded with 

 telling them, that we received nothing here below, 

 as food, raiment, &c., but what came from that 

 Omnipotent being. They listened to my discourse 

 with a profound silence, assuring me that they be- 

 lieved what I said to be true. 



