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that, animated with the moft inveterate and 
fangulnary hatred againft the whites, they 
endeavoured to infpire their children with 
the fame deteftation of them, in order that 
it might increafe with their years ; and that 
they were not forry to have heard them re- 
peat, in this rencontre, the catechifm of 
vengeance. 
With regard to the men, they fmiled on 
°my approach, and feemed not at all aftonifh- 
ed to fee me 5 for they had been informed 
the preceding evening that I intended to pay 
them a vifit. Their horde amounted only 
to about an hundred, or an hundred and 
twenty people ; and their flocks, which I 
met in going towards them, and which con- 
lifted of an hundred horned cattle, and per- 
haps twice that number of flheep, plainly 
(hewed that they were far from being 
wealthy : but I was more fully convinced 
that this was the cafe when I faw thefe poor 
wretches employed in drying locufts upon 
hard mats, and cutting off their legs and their 
wings. As their colleftion of this provifion 
was in the higheft ftate of fermentation, J 
was obliged to take the windward fide of 
them, 
