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feel ashamed when clothing is put upon 
them, and not unfrequently are they perse- 
cuted by their friends for turning white 
people. When any dress like white people, 
or adopt the customs and fashions of the 
whites, others say 46 they done turn white 
manP 
Children at the schools if not watched, 
will throw off their clothing, and when 
alone they love to do this, and have a good 
romp, then put them on ( and with them a 
long, sober face), before coming into the 
presence of the Missionary. 
Many of them, young and old, seem to 
have a natural dislike to clothing, for even 
headmen when visited unawares, are some- 
times found naked. 
The warmness of the climate accounts for 
this in part ; for certainly the biting frosts of 
December in this country would not onlv 
change their tastes in this particular, but 
would cause them to put forth effectual 
efforts to procure clothing. " Necessity is 
the mother of invention/' and a father to 
provide. 
