NORTH AMERICA* .49;] 
The king, although he is acknowledged to be 
the firft and greatest man in the town or tribe, and 
honoured with every due and rational mark of love 
and esteem, and when presiding in council, with a 
humility and homage as reverent as that paid to the 
in oft defpotic monarch ill Europe or the Edi\ 
and when abfent, his feat is not filled by any other 
perfon, yet he is not dreaded ; and when out of the 
council, he aiTociates with the people as a common 
man, converfss with them, and they with him, in 
perfect eafe and familiarity. 
The mico or king, though elective, yet his ad- 
vancement to that fupreme dignity mud be under- 
flood in a very different light from the elective mo- 
narchy of the old world, where the progrefs to 
magistracy is generally effected by fchifm and the 
influence of friends gained by craft, bribery, and 
often by more violent efforts : and after the throne 
is obtained, by meafures little better than usurpa- 
tion, he muff be protected and fupported there, by 
the fame bale means that carried him thither. 
But here behold the majefty of the Mufcogulge' 
mice! he dqes not either publicly or privately 
beg of the people to place him in a situation to 
command and rule them : no, his appearance is 
altogether myfterious ; as a beneficent deity he 
rifes king over them, as the fun rifes to biefs the 
earth ! 
No one will tell you how or when he became 
their king ; but he is universally acknowledged 
to be the greatest perlbn among them, and he is 
loved, esteemed and reverenced, although he af- 
filiates, eats, drinks and dances with them in 
common as another man*; his dress is the fame, 
