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^excurfions, carried us ever all waters and rivulets on 



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and fetched the ducks and other birds which we had 'Ihot j they 



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entertained us with fongs and dances j made us prefents 6f cloth 



and provisions 



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d fome of them were pol 



every acceptation 



of the word, and treated us in a manner, which cannat b 



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minds -the mofl: lailing impreffions 'df their courtefy and 



'benevolence. 



Thefe great principles oi candotir an4 humaraty^ which are fo 



by thefe nation s^ 



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'well underflood, and 



fo generally 



^have no doubt, a great influence on their MORALS and manners* 

 The iirft dawnings of the hw of nature, taught them to be 



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cautious, and abftain from doing harm to their fellow creatures j 

 'but morality gives the great pracflical "leifon to make as many fellow 

 creatures happy as pollible. I will not however, maintain that 

 -thofe feelings of moral fenfe are abfolutely the fame at all times. 



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imates, and among all nations : for I am well aware, th 



often the fame nation approves of an adion at one period of tlme> 



^and at another condemns It 



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am likev/ife not fo ignorant as to 



deny tkat the fame adion is condemned by onepeople, and approved 



by another, or at leaf! not reckoned to be criminal ; becanfe nations 



;are in this refped likewife, iimilar to individuals : the}' gradually 



ripen to an age of maturity, and acquire in every age a more 



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