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for Paffengers that were infeebled by Labour and 

 Want. She Cerere & Baccho friget Venus. After he 

 made us fueh a civil Proffer, the Savages, upon my 

 inftance, reprefenced to him, that my Detachment 

 expe&ed me at a certain hour, and that if I ftay'd 

 longer, they would be in pain for me. This Adven- 

 ture happen d on the 7th of January. 



Two days after, the Cackk came to fee me, and 

 brought with him four hundred of his own Subje&s, 

 and four Moz>eem!ck Savages, whom I took for Spa- 

 niards. My Miftake was occafion'd by the great dif- 

 ference between thefe two American .Nations ; for, 

 the Mozeemlek Savages were cloath'd, they had a 

 thick bufhy Beard, and their Hair hung down un- 

 der their Ears ; their Complexion was fwarthy, their 

 Addrefs was civil and fubmiffive, their Meen grave, 

 and their Carriage engaging. Upon thefe Confide- 

 rations I could not imagine that they were Savages, 

 tho p after all I found my felf miftaken. Thefe four 

 Slaves gave me a Defcription of their Country, which 

 the Gnacfi tares reprefented by way of a Map upon a 

 Deer's Skin ; as you fee it drawn in this Map. Their 

 Villages ftand upon a River that fprings out of a ridge 

 of Mountains, from which the Long River likewife 

 derives its Source, there being a great many Brooks 

 there which by a joint Confluence form the River. 

 When the Gnacfnares have a mind to hunt wiid 

 Beeves, they fet out in Pirogues, which they make ufe 

 of till they come to the Crofs marked thus ( + ) in 

 the Map, at the Confluence of two little Rive s. The 

 Hunting of the wild Bulls, with which all the Val- 

 leys are covered in Summer, is iometimes the pccafi- 

 pn of a cruel War : For the other Crofs (-j-) which 

 you fee in the Map is one of the Boundaries or Li- 

 mits of Mo&eewlek ; and if either of thefe two Nati- 

 ons advances but a little beyond their Limits, it gives 

 Rife to a bloody Engagement. The Mountains I 

 fpoks of but now 9 are fix Leagues broad^ and fo high 



