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dom of nature ; neither fuffering their liberty 

 to be effaced by bondage, nor abridged by 

 civilization. Being one day at the town of 

 New Amfterdam with the ading furgeon of 

 the garrifon, we took a walk down to the 

 Bufli on the border of the creek or river 

 Kannye. Nigh to the water we met with a 

 party of Indians, and obferving that they made 

 no attempt to avoid us, we went fo near to them 

 as to mix in the group. We found them en- 

 gaged in various purfuits ; and remarked that 

 pone of their occupations fuffered any inter- 

 ruption from our prefence. A woman and 

 her fon, who were in the river, continued to 

 bathe before us, and feemed greatly to enjoy 

 the water. Some were cutting wood for firing 

 — fome colle&ing the Bufh-water f with a 

 calabafh, for the purpofe of drinking, or of 

 cooking — fome, with their pot of baked clay 

 upon the fire, were ftewing crabs, together 

 with capficum and caffada juice into pepper 

 pot— and fome were eating the raw tops of 

 the mountain cabbage. To the latter I held 



* Upon this coaft the foreft is termed the Bujh, 



\ The ram water which lodges in the low parts of 

 the foreft. 



