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regard to our fociai or moral conduft O divine 
fimplicity and truth, friendship without fallacy or 
guile, hofpitality difinterefted, native, undefiled, 
unmodifyed by artificial refinements ! 
My venerable hoft gracefully and with an air of 
refpedt, led me into an airy, cool apartment ; where 
being feared on cabins, his women brought in a re~ 
freiling repair, confiding of fodden venifon, hot 
corn cakes, &c. with a pleafant cooling liquor made 
of hommony well boiled, mixed afterwards with 
milk; this is Served up either before or after eat- 
ing in a lame bowl, with a very large fpoon or 
ladle to fup it with. 
After partaking of this Ample but healthy and 
liberal collation, and the difhes cleared off. Tobac- 
co and pipes, were brought; and the chief filling one 
of them, whofe idem, about four feet long, was 
Sheathed in a beautiful fpeckled fnake fkin, and a- 
domed with feathers and firings of wampum, lights 
it and fmoaks a few whiffs, puffing the fmoak find 
towards the fun, then to the four cardinal points, 
and laftly over my breaft, hands it towards me, 
which I cheerfully received from him and fmoak- 
ed ; when we fell into converfation., He firft en- 
quired if I came from Charlefton ? if I knew John 
Stewart, Efq. how long fince I left Charlefton? &c. 
Having fatisfied him in my anfwers in the beft 
manner I could, he was greatly pleafed; which I 
was convinced of by his attention to me, his cheer- 
ful manners, and his ordering my horfe a plentiful 
bait of corn, which laid inftance of refpedl is con- 
ferred on thole only to whom they manifeft the 
higheft efteem, laying that corn was given by the 
Great Spirit only for food to man* 
I ac- 
