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their chiefs. These savages are never found guilty 

 of that great crime in a soklier. I challenge all 

 mankind to tell me of one instance of it ; besides, 

 they never prove traitors to their native country, 

 but rather choose death than partake and side 

 with the enemy. 



They naturally possess the righteous man's gift ; 

 they are patient under all afflictions, and have a 

 great many other natural virtues, which I have 

 slightly touched throughout the account of these 

 savages. 



They arc really better to us than we arc to them, 

 they always give us victuals at their quarters, and 

 take care we are armed against hunger and thirst: 

 We do not bo by them, generally speaking, but let 

 them walk by our doors hungry and do not often 

 relieve them. We look upon them with scorn and 

 disdain, and think them little better than beasts 

 in human shape, though if well examined, we shall 

 find that, for all our religion and education, we 

 possess more moral deformities and evils than these 

 savages do, or are acquainted withal. 



We reckon them slaves in comparison to us, and 

 intruders, as oft as they enter our houses, or hunt 

 near our dwellings. But if we will admit reason 

 to be our guide, she will inform us that these In- 

 dians are the freest people in the world, and so 

 far from being intruders upon us that we have 

 abandoned our own native soil, to drive them 

 out, and possess theirs, neither have we any true 

 balance in judging of these poor heathens, because 



