i4i TRAVELS IN 
the good will of the hordes whofe chiefs I 
£hould think proper to ornament with them. 
I employed them for that purpofe,- as will 
hereafter be feen, in different places in the in-^ 
terior of the country ; and I have often re- 
gretted the want of objetls equaFiy fare to the 
favages, and which might have facilitated ari 
intercourfe that it would be vain to attempt 
in any other way. la general, and it cannot 
be too often repeated^ it is only with toys, as 
one may fay, that the friendfhip of men in a 
ftate of nature is to be conciliated. I am filled 
^ith a mixed fentiment of contempt and indig- 
nation^ when, in the accounts of travels among 
favages, I read hiftories of maffacres and warSj^^ 
of which, without a bkifli, men often avovr 
themfelves the defenders, and which are exhi- 
bited to Europeans as a<3s of prowefs, deferv- 
ing of renown, and worthy to be imitated. 
As for me, I have already faid, that my rcafon- 
ings upon this fubjed: are very different : of this 
the reader will be more and more convinced, 
as he follows me in my travels. Expeiienced 
is I am at prefent, it would be eafy for me fo 
la conduil myfelf, as ^o avoid even the thought 
of 
