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kingdom In Europe, had they not feen the flleet 

 De la Huchetre, where the cook's fhops, in which 

 they found aconftant fupply of all forts of eatables, 

 pleafed them highly. 



Nor can we injuftice fay, that what makes them 

 fo fond of their own way of living is their not be- 

 ing acquainted with the charms of ours. A good 

 l umber of Frenchmen have tried their way of life, 

 and were fo pleafed with> it, that feveral of 

 them, though they could have lived very com- 

 fortably in the colony, could never be prevailed 

 upon to return to it •, on the contrary, there never 

 was fo much as a fingle Indian that could be 

 brought to rejifh our way of living. Children 

 have been taken even in their fwadling clothes, 

 and have been brought up with a great deal of 

 care; nothing has been omitted to hinder them 

 from the knowledge of what might pafs at home 

 with their parents: all thefe precautions have 

 been fruitlefs, the force of blood having ever got 

 the better of education : the moment they have 

 found themfelves at liberty, they have torn their 

 clothes to pieces, and have gone acrofs the woods 

 in quefl of their countrymen, whofe way of living 

 feemed preferable to ours. 



An Iroquois called La Plaque, and the fame 

 perfon, who by faving his father's life at an en- 

 gagement, thought himfelf freed from all obli- 

 gations to him, lived among the French for fe- 

 veral years. He was even made a lieutenant in 

 our army, in order to induce him to remain 

 with us, as he was a very brave man. He coul$ 

 not however hold out, and returned to his own 

 nation, carrying away with him only our vices, 



without 



