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They come down, occafionally, in partie^ 

 and enter into an engagement to cut wood for 

 a certain compenfation ; but no dependence 

 can be placed upon them for a fingle day, for 

 they fometimes pack up all belonging to them, 

 and return fuddenly and unexpectedly into 

 the woods ; from whence they come not again 

 for feveral months, perhaps not at all. They 

 are naturally indolent, and, being tenacious of 

 freedom, they become impatient of the re-* 

 ftraint impofed by daily labour ; wherefore, 

 they haftily caft it off, and fly back to the 

 woods to range in their native liberty, which 

 knows no bounds, nor controul. From pof- 

 feffing a degree of expertnefs in the felling of 

 timber, they might be highly ufeful in forward- 

 ing the cultivation of the colony, but they 

 have no fenfe of induftry, nor do they feem to 

 acquire the leaft difpofition to emulate the 

 colonifts ina ny of their purfuits : — content 

 with finding food and pepper in the woods, 

 they have no ambition to become planters. 

 Cotton is not neceflary to protect their naked 

 {kins ; nor are their appetites fo refined as to 

 require either coffee or fugar, 



