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to which they were going, juft as it was, with- 
out any deception. 
Relating to them nothing but what I had 
recently feen with my own eyes, they could 
not avoid placing fome confidence in my tef- 
timony. I accordingly gave them a brief ac- 
count of every thing moll remarkable that had 
happened to me in the different parts of the 
country 3 fcrupuloufly delineating both the good 
and th^ bad, without concealing any thing of 
either. I then advifed them to give up thq 
^lad and chimerical ideas which had engen-. 
dered in them fuch covetous defires i and told 
them, that if, inftead of Ipfing time in feeklng 
gold and gems in a country where they were 
not to be found, they would form a fcttlement 
there, they might bring up their children with 
eafe, and live in happy and peaceful coinpe- 
tence. 
Many prejudices refpedmg the favages had 
been inrtilled into their minds. On this point 
I undeceived them ; and, citing my own ex- 
ample, I gave them to underfcand what great 
fervices they m.ight exped: from thefe people, 
if they would form like me an intimacy with 
them, gain their favour by a few a6ts of friend- 
