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It is eafy to judge to what a height, both the one 

 and the other muft arrive amongft perfons who 

 never change their cloaths, till they tall to pieces 

 of themfelves, and who take no care to keep them 

 clean. In fummer they bathe themfelves every 

 day, hut immediately afterwards they rub them- 

 felves with oil and greafe of a very rank fmell. In 

 the winter they remain in their fat, and during all 

 that feafon it is impoffible to enter their cabbins 

 without being poifoned with the flench. 



Not only every thing they eat is ill-feafoned 

 and commonly very infipid, but there prevails in 

 all their repairs an uncleanlinefs, which pafTes all 

 conception : what I have myfelf feen, as well as 

 what I have been told of it, would ft r ike you with 

 horror. There are very few animals which do not 

 feed cleaner, and after feeing what paffes amongft 

 thefe people in this refpecl, there is no room to 

 doubt, that the imagination contributes greatly 

 to our repugnancies ; and that many of thofe 

 things which are really prejudicial to our health, 

 are only fo by means of thofe very repugnancies, 

 and our want of courage in furmounting them, 



It mufl however be granted, that things arefome- 

 what changed with refpedt. to all thefe points, fince 

 our arrival in this country \ and I have even known 

 fome to endeavour to procure themfelves con- 

 veniences, with which they will probably very 

 foon be fcarce able to difpenfe. Some of them 

 alfo begin to ufe more precaution than formerly, 

 to prevent their being unprovided, in cafe the 

 hunting mould happen to fail them ; and amongft 

 thofe who are fettled in the colony, there requires 

 but a very fmall addition to furnifh out a tolerable 

 fhare of the conveniences of life. But what, is 



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