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The principal attribute with which 

 thefe tribes endow the Deity is bene- 

 volence; and though they impute the 

 good, yet they attribute none of the ills 

 of life to him. Good and evil they 

 think fo effentially different, fo incom- 

 patible with each other, that they can 

 never flow from the fame fourcej and 

 have therefore inftituted an order of fub- 

 ordinate malevolent beings, correfpond- 

 ing to our commonly received ideas of 

 Devils, who delight in, and are per- 

 mitted to inflict, miferies on mankind. 

 To them are attributed all the misfor- 

 tunes and afflictions of life. Death, dif- 

 eafes, wounds, bruiies and all the un- 

 lucky accidents of life, are fuppofed to 

 refult immediately from the malign in- 

 fluence of thefe beings, who are called 

 Towahoos by the Indians ', who think 

 that they are conftantly employed in 

 concerting meafures for affliding them. 

 To thefe Towahoos, therefore, they di- 

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