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beards which it was then the fafhion to wear ; 

 that they did not like our white colour ; and that 

 the flefh of the French and Englifh feemed of a 

 difagreeable tafte to them, becaufe of its faltnefs. 

 Thus, Madam, the idea which was formerly en- 

 tertained in Europe of the Indians, who were 

 reprefented there like men all covered with hair, 

 not only differs from the truth in every parti- 

 cular, but is alfo precifely the fame which they 

 at firft entertained of us, as they believed that 

 our bodies were as hairy all over as the chin and 

 breaft of fome perfons. 



I have the honour to be, &c. 



LETTER 



