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this is certainly not the fault of the land where 

 they are fettled were they to cultivate it ever fo 

 little they would find at leaft fufficient for their 

 fubfiftance ? fi firing alone would fupply them with 

 'a good part, and this exercife is far from being 

 very laborious, but after having once tailed brandy 

 they think only of amaffing of furs to purchafe 

 wherewithal to intoxicate themfelves. The Hu- 

 ron s who are wifer, more laborious and more ac- 

 cuftomed to hufbandry, being alfo endued with a 

 greater mare of fore fight entertain more folid 

 thoughts, and by means of their induftry are in a 

 condition not only to fubfift without beings be- 

 holden to any one, but alfo to furnifti a fupply to 

 their neighbours ; this however is not done entirely 

 from fentlments of humanity, for we mutt by no 

 means reckon amongft the number of their good 

 qualities that of difintereftednefs. 



I was ftill better received amongft the infidel 

 Poutewatamies than amongft the chriftian Hu- 

 rons ; thefe Indians are the fineft men in all Ca- 

 nada, and are befides of the fweeteft natural temper, 

 and have been always our very good friends. 

 Onanguice their chief treated me with a polite- 

 nefs which gave me full as high an opinion of his 

 good fenfe as the difcourfe he had made in the 

 council he is a perfon of undoubted worth, and 

 entirely in our intereft. 



As I was returning through a quarter of the 

 Huron village, I perceived a number of thefe In- 

 dians, who feemed much heated at play ; I ap- 

 proached them and found that the game they were 

 paing at was what they call the game of the 

 platter ; this is the game to which the Indians 

 are addicted above all others, they fometimes 

 lofe their reft, and in fome degree their very 



fenfes 



