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all thofe people, whom the avarice of the 
Europeans has treated with cruelty, there arc 
none who preferve a ftronger remembrance 
of the injuries they here fuftained, or who 
hold the name of the whites in greater detelC- 
tation. They will never forget the perfidies 
of the planters, and the infamous return made 
to them for the fignal fervices which they 
have rendered upon more than a hundred oc* 
cafions. Their refentment is fo violent, 
that they have always the dreadful word ven* 
geance in their mouths, and an opportunity 
of giving vent to it happens always too late, 
though they are continually watching for it. 
I propofe to give fomc farther account of 
thefe Houfwaana when, paffing under the 
tropic, I come to vifit then* hordes. 
One evening, after retiring to my tent, 
having begun to confign to my journal the 
events of the day, while all my people felted 
around a fire were fmoklng their pipes, my 
curiofity was greatly roufed by loud peals of 
laughter, which ftruck my ears ; and I over- 
heard one of my huntfmen relating to the 
reft a difcovery, which fo much the more 
excited their mirth, as it afforded them great 
matter of furprife, and as they took it for a 
tald 
