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Gcnmil Parsons' Discoveries in the Western Coimiry 



Dutch, English, and other European nations; and 



diiTcreucc in their manners and habits 



gencridly 



no g 



mall 



The Shawa 



of a small size, rather elegant in their features. 



aiK 



1 a 



y cheerful and crafty people 



Counscll 



IT amono; 



old people, and dancing among their 



yoimg men 



and 



^'omen, take up a great part of 

 on the contra 



time. The Dclaic 



y, are a stout; robust people ; have littl 



of 



the vivacity of 

 manners. They 

 good spirit; and 

 the author 



Skiwancsc, and are more g 



m 



their 



a firm belief of a supreme 



also in the existence of evil spiri 



one 



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author of all good, and the other the cause of all evil : 

 and also in a state of future existence. 



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I could not satisfy myself that there was among them any 

 set worship paid to the Deity : except in some nations, once, 

 and. in others iuice, in a year, a national feast was provided, 

 to which the tribe is convened ; and the cliiefj before they 

 eat, makes a speech to them, in which the duties they owe 



the Supreme Being, and 



to one another 



are explained ; 

 at the close of their repast, he exhorts them to the practice 

 of those duties: and the whole is ended with a solemn 



dance. 

 The 



toms prevailinp; in some of the tribes, b 



^ _, ._ 3ar an 



ffinity to the customs prevailing among the Jews (perhaps 



by other 



rly might have been practised 



'ly times 



) Women in travail are removed 



from the residence of the family to a hut provided at a d 

 tance: when delivered, their 

 deposited near their door, for 



food 



d to 



and 



mber of days. The par- 

 ticular 



