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one double his ftrength, came to vifit us a fhort 

 while after, and told us, that Don Diego had drub- 

 bed him twice very heartily, for getting drunk on 

 board the Adour, where probably fome remainder 

 of , fpirituous liquors had been left. The mod 

 fenfible difference to be found between the Indians 

 of Canada, and thofe of Florida, is this depen- 

 dance on their chiefs, and the refpect they mew 

 them. Thus we fee not in them as in the former 

 thole elevated fentiments, and that haughtinefs 

 which is the effect of their independance, and which 

 is fupplied in policied ftates by thefe principles of 

 religion and honour, which are inftilled into the 

 mind by education in their early and tender years. 



On the twenty-fecond, Don Diego came frankly, 

 and without (laying for any invitation to dine with 

 us, clothed as on the preceding day. He feemed 

 delighted with this drefs, which gave him however a 

 very ridiculous air, and which, joined to the bad- 

 nefs of his phyfipgnomy, made him exaclly re- 

 femble a man going to pay an amende honourable, 

 that is, fuffer fome fcandalous punifhment. Whe- 

 ther from religion or natural reluctance, we could 

 never prevail with him to eat any flefh ; we had 

 ftill fome fifh left, which he himfelf had fent us 

 the evening before : he eat of this, and drank pure 

 Water. 



After the repaft we were willing to fpeak about 

 bufinefs ; but he told us at once, that after hav- 

 ing maturely confidered the propofal we had made 

 him, he could neither fpare us Don Antonio nor 

 any other of his people for guides to conduct us to 

 St. Auguftin, as there were numerous nations on 

 the way we muft of neceffity take, with whom he 

 was actually at war. I do not know whether we 



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