Cap. VII. The Caribby-I (lands. 



on the contrary, that they would not blafc their reputation,and 

 the glory of all their precedent Victories, by fo (hameful a 

 peace, which, under pretence of Religion, would make them 

 fubjeft to the Apalachites 5 That they were free-born, and that, 

 as fuch,they had left the place of their birth, andtranfplanted 

 themfelves into a better Country than their own, by force of 

 Arms} That their greateft concernment was to endeavour the 

 continuance of that precious liberty, and to cement it with 

 their own blood, if occafion required } That they were the 

 (ame men who had fometime fore'd the Apalachites to refigo 

 up to them the mod considerable of their Provinces, fuch a one 

 as was the centre, and as it were the eye of their Country , 

 That they had not remitted any thing of that generofity, and 

 that that valour was fo far from being extinguifh'd, that on the 

 contrary they had enlarg'd their jurifdidion by the acqueft of 

 a noble and fpacious Countr"y,which gave them paflage beyond 

 the Mountains,whereby they were furrounded before } That 

 having thus removed out of the way whatever might obftrucr. 

 their defigns, it would be thought an infupportable cowardice 

 in them, only under pretence of Religion, and out of pure 

 curiofity of being prefent at Sacrifices, to quit the poffeffion 

 of what they had reducd under their power with fo much 

 trouble and bloodfhed : In fine, that if any were defirous to 

 adore the Sun, they needed not to go out of their own Terri- 

 tories tp do it, fince he lhined as favourably in their Provinces 

 asthofe of the Apalachites ,and look'd on them every day as gra- 

 cioufly as on any other part of the world and if there were 

 any neceffity of confecrating a Mountain to him, or a Grot, 

 they might find among thofe which feparated their Country 

 from the great Lake, fome that were as high and as fit for 

 thofe myfteries as that oiolaimi. 



Thofe who maintained the fervice of the Sun, and were 

 againft engaging in a new war, which muft be the fequel of 

 refufing conditions which were as advantageous to them as to 

 the Apalachites^ made anfwer 5 that fince they had for fome 

 years en joy 'd the fweetnefs of peace, and experienced upon fo 

 many occasions the kind entertainments and generofity of 

 their Neighbours, it would be the greateft imprudence in the 

 world to run themfelves into new troubles, which they might 

 avoid upon fuch eafie terms, and that without any lots of the 

 reputation they had acquir'd } That the acknowledgments 

 which .the Apalachites requir'd for the Province they were pof- 

 fefled of, might be fnch, and of fo little importance, that it 

 would not be any diminution of their Honour, or prejudice to 

 their Authority 5 That as to what concern cl the Service and 

 Sacrifices of the Sun, they were not furninYd with fuch Priefts 

 as were inftru&ed in that Science, and acquainted with the 

 Ceremonies thereof} That it was much to be fear'd that if they 



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