- ( 75 ) 
pagate tliefe flanders for the purpofe of co- 
vering their enormities ; and which, if not 
ftopt by the hand of poA/i' er muft eventually- 
lead to a totai extirpation of a harmlefs and 
unoffending race. Had they really been 
fava^es^ and felt like their chrijlianperfectriors^ 
no compunftious vintings of nature/' they, 
would have deftroyed the whole of my un- 
fortunate creWj and this maffacre might 
have been perpetrated without the natives 
running even the hazard of a Dimifliment, 
The clothing of my people, although 
little value in a country of trade and civili- 
zation, would have been to them a mofl 
iniporiant acqiiifition, or they could have 
graiifiedj nai^ even /ciliated cruelty, by 
'frripping and leaving us naked to all the' 
horrors of the wildcrnefs, a prey to famine, 
or the vald and ferocious animals of the de- 
ferts. But thefe humane, yet calumniated 
favages^ vvj'v as men Vv^hofc fouls were 
truly alTeCced at our misfortunes, and ac- 
ting fVciTi the virtuous i-mpulfe of their na- 
ture, voluntarily gave to the unhappy, con* 
folatiGn and fiipport. We were moftly whites ^ 
but ftill they Vv^ere our friends. The black 
and volumir.ous catalogue of miferies, which 
they and their progenitors had fo long en- 
dured from favages of our colour, faded at 
once on their remembrance when they be- 
held our diiirefles. — Such was the conduct^ 
and fuch arc the native feelings of the 'honeji^ 
hBiieJl T A M B o U C H I s . 
The profligate character afcribed to th^^c 
