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burning heat of the fun in fummer, and the 

 piercing wind in winter. 



If you travel in a canoe the confined pofture 

 you are obliged to fit in, and the apprehenfion 

 occafioned at your firft fetting out, by the extreme 

 fragility of this vehicle , the inaction you muft of 

 necefiky be in, the Gownefs of your voyage, 

 which is retarded by the, leaft Giower of rain, or 

 gale of wind ; the little fociety or converfation 

 that can be had with peifons who know nothing, 

 who never open their mouths whilft they are em- 

 ployed, who poifon you with their ftench, and 

 who fill you with vermin and naftinefs ; the ca- 

 price and rudenefs you muft put up with from 

 them ; the infults to which you are expofed from 

 a drunkard, or a perfon whom any unforfeen ac- 

 cident, a dream or the remembrance of any thing 

 difagreeable puts into an ill humour ; the avarice 

 natural to thofe barbarians at the fight of any 

 thing they covet, and what has coft feveral rnifli- 

 onaries their lives and in cafe war happens to be 

 declared between the nations, in whofe territory 

 you are, the danger you are conftantly expofed to, 

 either of being reduced to the moft wretched 

 Gavery, or of periGiing in the moft hideous tor- 

 ments : fuch, madam, is the life that has been led 

 by the firft miflionaries efpecially : if for fome time 

 paft it has been lefs rude in fome refpects, it has 

 been attended with regard to the evangelical la- 

 bourers with internal, and consequently more fen- 

 fible mortifications, which far from dimini filing 

 in length of time grow in proportion to the in- 

 creafe of the colony, and as the natives begin to 

 have a freer correfpondence with all forts of per- 

 fons. 



K 4 Laftly, 



