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plariters took up arms and purfued them ; they 
maffacred them without pity, and feized on 
their cattle and their country. Thofe who 
efcaped their atrocities betook themfelves to 
flight, and removed to tlie land which they 
now occupy ; but, on quitting their former 
poffeifTions, they fwore, in their own name and 
that of their pofterity, to exterminate thefe 
European monfters, to be revenged againft 
whom they had fo many incitements. And 
thus, if tradition be true, was a peaceful and 
induftrious nation rendered warlike, vindidive, 
arid ferocious* 
This hatred, fo juft in Its principle, has been 
perpetuated from generation to generation, 
though the Houzouanas of the prefent day are 
ignorant of the original caufe of it. Bred up 
with an invincible averfion to the planters, 
they know only that they are animated to 
plunder and deftroy them ; but it is only by a 
Vague fentiriient of deteftation, with the fource 
of which they are unacquainted ; and which 
happily, in rendering them cruel towards the 
planters, does not prevent them fi'dm being 
igood, kind, and humane, towards each other. 
What I have faid refpefting the moral and 
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