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regard to our focial or moral conduct. O divine 
fimplicity and truth, friendship without fallacy or 
guile, hofpitality difmterefted, native, urtdefikd, 
unmodifyed by artificial refinements ! 
My venerable hod: gracefully and with an air of 
refpefl, led me into an airy, cool apartment ; where 
being feated on cabins, his women brought in a re- 
frefhing repad:, confiding of fodden venifon, hot 
corn cakes, &c. with a pleafant cooling liquor made 
of hommony well boiled, mixed afterwards with 
milk ; this isferved up, either before or after eating, 
in a large bowl, with a very large fpoon or ladle to 
fup it with. 
After partaking of this fimple but healthy and 
liberal collation, and the difhes cleared off. Tobac- 
co and pipes w r ere brought; and the chief filling 
one of them, whofe Item, about four feet long, was 
fheathed in a beautiful fpeckled fnake Ikin, and 
adorned with feathers and firings of wampum, lights 
it and fmoaks a few whiffs, puffing the fmoak firft 
towards the fun, then to the four cardinal points, 
and laftly over my bread:, hands it towards me, 
which I chearfully received from him andfmoaked; 
when we fell into converfatiop* He firfl enquired 
if I came from Charlefton? if I knew John Stewart, 
Efq< how long fince I left Charlefton ? &c. Hav- 
ing fatisfied him in my anfiwers in the beft manner 
I could, he was greatly pieafed ; which I was con- 
vinced of by his attention to me, his cheerful man- 
ners, and his ordering my horfe a plentiful bait of 
corn, which laft inftance of relpedl is conferred on 
thofe only to whom they manireft the higheft efteem, 
faying that corn was given by the Great Spirit only 
for food to man. 
