NORTH AMERICA. 
The king, although he is acknowledged to be the 
lirft and greateft man in the town or tribe, and ho- 
noured with every due and rational mark of love 
and efteem, and when presiding in council, with a 
humility and homage as reverent as that paid to the 
moft defpotic monarch in Europe or the Eaft, and 
when abfent, his feat is not filled by any other per- 
fon, yet he is not dreaded ; and when out of the 
council, he aftbciates with the people as a common 
man, converfes with them, and they with him, in 
perfect eafe and familiarity. 
The mi co or king, though eleflive, yet his ad- 
vancement to that fupreme dignity rnuft be under- 
ftood in a very different light from the eleciive 
monarchs of the old world, where the progrefs to 
magiftracy is generally effefted by fchifm and the 
influence of friends gained by craft, bribery, and 
often by more violent efforts ; and after the throne 
is obtained, by meafures little better than ufurpa- 
tion, he mu ft be protected and fupported there, by 
the fame bafe means that carried him thither. 
But here behold the majefty of the Mufcogulge 
mico ! he does not either publicly or privately beg 
of the people to place him in a fituation to com- 
mand and rule them : no, his appearance is altoge- 
ther myfterious ; as a beneficent deity he rifts king 
over them, as the fun rifts to. bids the earth ! 
No one will tell you how or when he became 
their king; but he is univerfally acknowledged to 
be the greateft pe-rfon among them, and he is 
loved, efteemed and reverenced, although he af- 
lbciates, eats, drinks, and dances with them in 
common as another man : his drefs is the fame. 
