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their happinefs would be too perfedt, 

 unalloyed by this vice, which is the 

 fource of all their quarrels, and of all 

 their crimes. Their language is diftinct 

 and harmonious, and but little diffimi- 

 lar from the Italian in foftnefs and mul- 

 tiplicity of vowels ; it is, however, nar- 

 row and confined, like their ideas. 



They live in a family fociety, fcat- 

 tered in different parts of the country ; 

 but their habitations are ufually conti- 

 guous either to the fides of rivers, or 

 of creeks communicating w T ith rivers. 

 Their houfes are made by cutting four 

 forked flicks, of different lengths, which 

 they place in the earth in four angles, 

 the two longer!: in front ; within the 

 forks of thefe flicks are laid four poles, 

 which are afterwards covered with fe- 

 veral others, laid in a lateral direction ; 

 over thefe are placed the leaves of 



Troolies, 



