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equals, and the refpeft fhewn by young people to 

 old age; and iaftly, that we never fee them in their 

 quarrels make ule of any indecent expre/Iions, and 

 thofe oaths fo common amongft us j all of them 

 proofs of their good fenfe and moderation. 



I have told your Grace that it is a maxim a- 

 dopted amongft them, and of which they arc 

 Jealous above all things, chat one man owes no- 

 thing to another : but from this evil principle they 

 derive a very good confequence, to wit, that we 

 inuft never injure a perfon who has not offended 

 us. There wants only to com pleat their happlnefs 

 to do between nation and nation, as they almofl 

 always do between man and man \ and never to 

 attack a people who have given them no grounds 

 of complaint, and not to pufh their third of ven- 

 geance lb very far. 



We muft however agree that what we rnoft ad- 

 mire in the Indians is not always to be attributed 

 to pure virtue $ that their natural difpofition and 

 their vanity, have a great fhare in it, and that 

 their brighten: qualities are obfeured by great vi- 

 ces. Thele very men who appear to us fo very con- 

 temptible at fituVfight, hold all the reft of mankind 

 in the greater! contempt ; and have the higheft 

 notion of themfelves. The proudeft of all were 

 the Hurons, till fuccefs puffed up the Iroquois and 

 infpired them with a haughtinefs, which nothing 

 has hitherto been able to tame, together with a 

 brutal ferocity which always conftituted their chief 

 characteriftick. 



On the other hand thefe people, fo haughty and 

 fo jealous of their liberty, are beyond imagination 



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