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into the plains, either in war or hunting. In gene- 

 ral, they use the bow and arrow in the former, but 

 always in the latter, though 1 do not think they are 

 expert archers, when it is considered they are all hun- 

 ters from the time they can carry these arms ; and 

 are so fond of that diversion, that they go out at all 

 seasons, and undergo great fatigue for the gratifica- 

 tion which it affords them. A poisoned arrow is al- 

 ways used in hunting, but never in war, though 

 they generally had them, as it is said, to be prepared 

 for any game that might start. 



There are no slaves on the hills; slavery can 

 neither be said to have been tolerated, nor forbidden. 

 Parents never sell their children ; and those who hire 

 themselves as servants, stay no longer than they agree 

 with or like their masters. 



Enough may have been said of their modes of 

 worship : they are not the first race of people who, 

 we are taught, believed that the chief means of 

 pleasing the Gods, and of pacifying them when they 

 were angry, consisted in certain ceremonies, sacri- 

 fices, and feasts, in the due observance of which they 

 conceive their welfare depends ; for, in praying, the 

 suppliant pays little more than to recommend himself 

 and family to the Supreme Being and subordinate 

 Deities, and to promise oblations at the shrine of 

 the God he then worships, provided he is fortunate, 

 and enabled so to do by his prosperity. Their ex- 

 piatory sacrifices are however confined to the brute cre- 

 ation ; there is no instance of their offering up any 

 of the human species to appease the Gods, who are 



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