NORTH AMERICA. Ill 
rate impartial trial, and public condemnation, and 
then die would be looked upon as a harlot. 
Such is the virtue of thefe untutored favages : 
but I am afraid this is a common-phrafe epithet* 
having no meaning, or at lead improperly applied; 
for thefe people are both well-tutored and civil ; and 
it is apparent to an impartial obferyer, who refides 
but a little time amongft them, that it is from the 
mod delicate fenfe of the honour and reputation of 
their tribes and families, that their laws and cudoms 
receive their force and energy. This is the divine 
principle which induences their moral condudt, and 
folely preferves their conditution and civil govern- 
ment in that purity in which they are found to pre- 
vail amongd them. 
CHAR 
