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led to labour in order to obtain wealth. They 

 live under the mod perfect equality, and 

 hence are not impelled to induftry by that 

 fpirit of emulation, which, in fociety, leads to 

 great and unwearied exertion. Content with 

 their fimple means, they evince no defire to 

 emulate the habits, or the occupations of the 

 colonifts : but, on the contrary, feem to regard 

 their toils and cuftoms with a fenfe of pity or 

 contempt. I have, occafionally, feen parties 

 of them looking on, when our foldiers have 

 been affembled, and going through the various 

 evolutions of their exercife : and they univer- 

 fally regarded them with a quiet indifference, 

 or the only fentiment indicated by their fea- 

 tures was a kind of contemptuous pity, which 

 was fometimes expreffed by a fignificant look, 

 that feemed to fay—" Aye, foolifli people ! 

 you take vaft pains with thefe things : — but 

 we do them much better, with infinitely lefs 

 trouble." 



They are very fond of drinking rum, and 

 eagerly fwallow it to intoxication. But they 

 obferve a kind of method in their drunken- 

 nefs ; for when they come down to the towns 

 in bodies of confiderable numbers, it is obferv- 



