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CALLED P'HANSIGAr^. m$ 



|je may have evinced, that he is deemed capable oEvapplying the 

 dioi^tii.r^oris,}\Q allowed to do fo, until he has been^ormally prefented 

 with fOjie; bry: his, u/ldd, For this purpofe a fortunate day being fixed 

 apon, ^nd the. liii^e of the Dejferah is deemed p3.Meu\^rlf}^tit9picTOxi$; 

 the preeeptQjt^tak'^sJiis pupil apart and prefents hfrn With'^ai^^?!^; which 

 he tells him to ufe in the name of Jayi;-; he-Gb>feTV'€$ t&hint tMi^ on 

 it he is ro rely for the means of fubliflence, and he exhorts him to be 

 difcrefet'ahd' co'jfageous. ' On the'cohclufiofi of tliiis /ceremony his 

 educatibn^ 1^ eonfidered to be complete, he is' (^^emedqualifiieci to a£^ 

 as a PHidns'igdr ; arid he applies the noofe oii the next occaGoo thai 



Aftsh his initiations a Fhdnsigdr <:,^x^iirmt:^ lo-treat- hi^preceptoi; wkh 

 great refped:. He. occafionally jma^LCs him prefents, and affifts him ia? 

 his old age ; and, on meeting him^^fter, a ion&,a^^nG^5,.^l>^^tQ.i;ches bi^ 

 feet in token of revcr^npeo^ , 



Such is the.effefl of -the, courf(e of . edueation^ I have defcribec|,. 

 i^rengthened by habit, th^X P'hdnsigars h^xomt ftrongly attachf.d to, 

 their deteftable occupation,. They , rarely, if ever, abandon it... ^/J^ 

 Some, narrowly efcaping the merited vengeapxe of the law anj;i releafed, 

 from prifon under fecurity, could not refrain from refuming their old 

 employ nientj ar^d |;|iofe who, .bending under the weigh(^ <)f ye^r^- and 

 infirmities, arq r^Q longer able to bear?n,aid:ivj? or principal pwjt,,;Copti-- 

 nup tp aid thecaufe^by keeping watch, procurijpginteUigencft,v<?Ti4^i?i^ 

 £ng the food of their younger confederates* 



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' The bonds of focial union among P'hdnsigdrs are dra^n. iliUvdofei:? 

 by intermirriages. Though not of frequent occurrence, inflances are 



