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no longer acknowledge this wretch (who 

 had been fo wicked towards an Englijhman) 

 as their countryman, and therefore would 

 have nothing more to do with him, and 

 that they delivered him up to the gover- 

 nor, to be punifhed for his villainy as the 

 laws of England dired:. This Indian was 

 afterwards hanged at Philadelphia. 



Their good natural parts are proved by 

 the following account, which many people 

 have given me as a true one. When they 

 fend their ambaffadors to the Englijh colo- 

 nies, in order to fettle things of confequence 

 with the governor, they lit down on the 

 ground, as foon as they come to his audi- 

 ence, and hear with great attention the go- 

 vernor's demands which they are to make 

 an anfwer to. His demands are fometimes 

 many. Yet they have only a ftick in their 

 hand, and make their marks on it with a 

 knife, without writing any thing elfe down. 

 But when they return the next day to give 

 in their refolutiohs, they anfwer all the go- 

 vernor's articles in the fame order, in which 

 he delivered them, without leaving one out, 

 or changing the order, and give fuch accu- 

 rate anfwers, as if they had an account of 

 them at full length in writing. 



Mr. Sleidorn related another ftory, whi'ch 



gave me great plcafure. He fajd he had 



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