164 The Hijlory of Book II. 



nefs and moderation, and exaft of them only fuch fervices as 

 were rational and anfwerable to their ftrength. 



Nay his care and tendernefs was very remarkable towards 

 fuch as were newly brought into the Country : To the end 

 therefore that at their arrival they might be fupply'd with all 

 things requifite tofecure them againft the injuries of the air, 

 and that their labour might not be hindred through want of 

 convenient lodging;, he defir'd, that as foon as the place which 

 they had defign'd for their building was uncover d, all the 

 Neighbourhood mould help them in the railing of it up : This 

 commendable Inftitutiofl was fo well receive!, and fo carefully 

 praftifed, that all the Inhabitants generally acknowledg'd the 

 equity of it, and took a certain pleafure in making a volunta- 

 ry contribution of their pains and cares upon that occafion : 

 Some went to cut down fuch Timber as might be neceflary 3 

 others were to find tVeeds and Palm-leaves for palizadoes and 

 covering 3 the ableft Architects planted the forkes, rais'd the 

 couples, and faften'd the covering, and all feem'd to be kindly 

 concern'd in the work, fo as that the narrow ftructure was in a 

 few days become tenantable, yet without any charge to the 

 owner, fave only to fee thofe charitable affiftants fupply'd with 

 the ordinary drink of the Country, as long as they were at 

 work upon his account. 



In fine, he had a particular averfion againft thofe idle per- 

 fons who are bafely content to live by the fweat and labour of 

 others, as the Drones do on the Hony which the laborious Bee 

 had brought into the common Treafury. But to retrive in 

 our days a little glimpfe of the Golden Age, fo much celebrated 

 by the Ancients, he incited all the Inhabitants to be liberal, 

 and apt to communicate to one another the goods which'God 

 had plentifully beftow'd on them, and to exprefs their charity 

 and hofpitality towards all thofe who came to vifit them, that 

 fb there might afterwards be no occafion to fetle Inns and Vi- 

 cl:ualling-houfes among them, as being places which for the 

 moft part ferv'd only for retreats to flothful, debauch'd, and 

 dhTolute perfons ; and the diforders and exceffes committed 

 therein were fo great 3 as in time might haften the defolation and 

 ruineof the whole Colony. 



But while the French Governor was thus taken up with the 

 ordering of his little Republick, and kept up the fpirits of his 

 people with the expectation of fudden recruits, the Gentlemen 

 of the Company not much differing in conftitution from many 

 of that Nation who think of reaping as foon as they have dif- 

 pos'd the feed into the ground, were for their parts in a conti- 

 nual expectation of fome Ships loaden with the richeft and moft 

 precious Commodities of America^ that fo they might be re- 

 imburs'd with intereft what they had laid out upon the firft 

 embarquing, and till that return were come, they thought of 



nothing 



