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reward, and he which hath behav'd himfelf well in che Wars, is fuffer'd ro wear 

 the Badges of Honor, and is adyane'd beyond others with fome Marks of his 

 Courage > which araongft fome is blacking the Skin below his Eyes with black 

 Lead, in fafliion fomcthing of an Half-Moon ; which Mark of Courage is not fuf- 

 fer'd to be worn by any, but thofe who by fome brave Action, as killing the Ene- 

 my's Leader, &c. hath fignaliz'd himfelf in their Encounters. They are faithful to 

 their Promifes, fair and candid in their Dealings, and fofar from Diflionefty, that 

 they want even the Seeds of it, V/<. Forecaft and Covetoufncfs. and he will be 

 very little apt to deceive you to Day, who troubles not himfelf much about to 

 Morrow,, and trufts for the Provifions of the Day to the Day it fclf. which pro- 

 ceeds not in them for want of Wit, but defire of Content and Quiet, or by the help 

 of their natural Reafon they enjoy that Happinefs which the Philofophers could 

 not by their Study and Reading attain to, whileft thefe Men cut off thofe Dcfires 

 which Learning could never help the other to Govern, and which if once permit- 

 ted to run out beyond the prefent, are capable of no Reft nor Bounds. In their 

 Converfation they are courteous and civil, and in their Vifits make Prefcnts to one 

 another; when they meet, their way of Salutation is ftroaking on the Shoulders, 

 and fucking in their Breath . and if he be a great Man whom they Salute, they 

 ftroak his Thighs too ; as civil an Addrefs, as thofe Patterns of good Breeding, the 

 Hero's, us'd to their Princes, who in their grcatcft Courtfhips, we are told, em- 

 brae'd their Knees : After their Salutation they fit down ; and it is ufual with 

 them to fit ftillalmoft a quarter of an hour before they fpeak, which is not an effect 

 of ftupidity or fullenncfs, but the accuftom'd Gravity of their Countrey 5 for they 

 are in their Tempers a merry, frollick, gay People, and fo given to Jollity, that 

 they will Dance whole Nights together, the Women fitting by and Singing, whileft 

 the Men Dance to their Ayrs, which though not like ours, are not harfh or unplca- 

 ilng, but are fomething like the Tunes of the Irifh : So that if we will not let our 

 felves too fondly admire onely the Cuftoms we have been bred up in, nor think 

 Men are to be valu'd for making Legs after our Mode, or the Clothes they wear, 

 which,the finer and gayer they are, always the more to befufpe&ed of Luxury and 

 Effcminatenefs ; if we will allow but thefe Men to follow the Garbs of their own 

 Countrey, and think them fine enough in a fliape onely to hide their Nakednefs 

 before, or a Deer-skin hanging loofely on their Shoulders, and their Women not 

 ill Drefs'd in Garments of Mofs, and Necklaces of Beads, whileft the Fafliion of 

 their Courts require no other Ornaments . if, I fay, along and pleafant Life, 

 without Diftemper or Care, be to be valu'd, without the incumbrance of unne- 

 ccflary Trinkets 5 if Men are to be efteem'd for Valor, Honefty, Friendfliip, Hu- 

 manity and good Nature, though Strangers to the ceremonious Troubles we are 

 accuftom'd to, the Natives of Carolina will as little, or perhaps lefs, deferve the 

 Name oiMiferable, or Salvage , as thofe that give it them. 'Tis true, the French and 

 Spaniards who have Planted amongft them, or with little Armies travell'd their 

 Countrey, have been ill handled by them ; but yet the Indians never did them any 

 harm, or treated them othcrwife than Friends, tili thofe Europeans by their breach of 

 Faith and feveral Outrages, hadprovok'd their juft Revenge • and they did nothing 

 but what moft vertuousand generous fort of Men arc apt to do, to revenge thofe 

 Affronts, which did not agree with their Tempers tamely to endure. That 

 this did not proceed from treachery and inconftancy in their Natures, is apparent 

 in the contrary Correfpondence they have had with the Englifr Setled amongft 

 them, to whom they have been all along very kind, as they were at firft very cove- 

 tous of their Company $ for after that fome of their King's Relation had been at 



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