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with plenty, they are voracious and 

 intemperate ; when their fituation is 

 the reverfe, they abftemioufly fuffer the 

 inconveniencies of want, without ap- 

 parent defire or anxiety. If human 

 happinefs confifts in contentment, thefe 

 people muil neceffarily be, of all others, 

 the moft happy ; where they have no 

 wants but what are eafily fupplied, and 

 where all are in a ftate of perfect equa- 

 lity, in which the tortures of difcon- 

 tent, envy, ambition, and avarice can- 

 not poffibly exifto 



As the Indians have no method of 

 Computing Time, for any number of 

 years, it is impoffible to afcertain the 

 length of their lives ; many of them, 

 however, appear covered with wrin- 

 kles, and all other marks of old age, 

 except baldnefs and grey hairs, from 

 which they are all exempt, even in the 

 moft advanced age. They, however, 



calculate 



