NARRATIVE OF AN 



CHAP, erea, vigorous, aaive, young, and healthy, which 

 convinced me that when the body is expofed, as it 

 certainly was ordained by nature, the face is but little 

 noticed. 



— — Such as Arcadian fong 



" Tranfmlts from ancient uncorrupted Time ; 

 " When tyrant Cuftom had not fhackled Man, 

 " But free to follow Nature was the mode." 



In her features was difplayed that beautiful fimplicity, 

 that native unfufpedting innocence, which cannot be put 

 on where there is the flighteft confcioufnefs of guilt. Nor 

 is the olive-colour incompatible with beauty, it is certainly 

 the ftandard complexion of the human race, while the 

 black and white are fuppofed to be only gradations, pro- 

 duced probably by the extremes of heat and cold. As this 

 Indian girl was perfectly handfome, fo flie feemed to be 

 perfe6lly happy. — " Happinefs," as the Abbe Reynal 

 wifely obferves, " is more frequently found in a pure ftate 



of nature, than in that of the moft refined civilization." 

 To be fure an European woman would blufh to her fin- 

 gers ends at the very idea of appearing publicly ftark 

 naked ; but education and prejudice are every thing, 

 lince it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of 

 felf-reproach, there can affuredly i)e no fhame. 



I remember to have feen an Indian youth, whofe name 

 was Weekee, at Bergen-op-Zoom, where he was brought 

 oyer from the colony Berbice with General Defahe, who 

 cloathed and partly civilized him : amongft other thing?, 



he 



