APPENDIX, N 3. 



THE success of this institution has in no degree corre- 

 sponded to the excellence of the design. The aborigi- 

 nal Indians are from their infancy accustomed to an idle 

 and roving life; they are chiefly employed in hunting, fowl- 

 ing, or fishing, or, as soon as they are able to carry arms or 

 a tomahawk, to war; and it is almost impossible to reclaim 

 them from this savage and dissipated mode of life. Not 

 many years ago, a remarkable instance happened at Wil- 

 liamsburg, which greatly exemplifies the present observa- 

 tion: The Cherokees had with difficulty been prevailed upon 

 to suffer one of their children, a youth of nine or ten years 

 of age, to be conducted to Williamsburg, in order that he 

 might be educated in Mr. Boyle's school. The young In- 

 dian soon shewed himself impatient of restraint and con- 

 finement; he grew sullen, would learn nothing, and although 

 every means were tried to please him (for it was the wish 

 and interest of the colony that he should be pleased) ap- 

 peared always dissatisfied and unhappy. One morning he 

 was missed, and although every possible inquiry was made, 

 no tidings could be heard, nor the least information re- 

 ceived concerning him: he had not been seen by any one, 

 either planter or negro; and as the distance of the Cherokee 

 country was four or five hundred miles, separated by large 

 rivers abounding with sharks, or immense forests full of 

 venomous serpents or wild beasts, it was justly apprehended 

 that he must inevitably perish; and as it would be impossible 



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