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Third a fortuiie, lie soon changes his habits. No longer under 



Journey. 



" strong necessity's supreme command/' he contrives to 

 get out of bed betwixt nine and ten in the morning. His 

 servant helps him to dress, he walks on a soft carpet to 

 his breakfast -table, his wife pours out his tea, and his 

 servant hands him his toast. After breakfast the doctor 

 advises a little gentle exercise in the carriage for an hour 

 or so. At dinner-time he sits down to a table groiming 

 beneath the weight of heterogeneous luxury : there he 

 rests upon a chair for three or four hours, eats, drinks, 

 and talks (often unmeaningly) till tea is announced. He 

 proceeds slowly to the drawing-room, and there spends 

 best part of his time in sitting, till his wife tempts him 

 with something warm for supper. After supper, he still 

 remains on his chair at rest, till he retires to rest for the 

 night. He mounts leisurely up stairs upon a carpet, and 

 enters his bed-room : there, one would hope, that at 

 least he mutters a prayer or two, though perhaps not on 

 bended knee : he then lets himself drop into a soft and 

 downy bed, over which has just passed the comely 

 Jenny's warming-pan. Now, could the Indian in his 

 turn see this, he would call the white men a lazy, indo- 

 lent set. 



Perhaps then, upon due reflection, you would draw 

 this conclusion ; that men will always be indolent, where 

 there is no object to rouse them. 



As the Indian of Guiana has no idea whatever of 



