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time they care not to go abroad, unlefs it be a 
cloudy dark day. Befidcs, they are a weak people 
in comparifon of the others, and not very fit for 
hunting, or other laborious exercifes, nor do they 
delight in any fuch. But, notwithflanding their 
being thus fluggifli and dull in the day-time, 
yet, when moon-fliiny nights come, they are all 
life and activity, running abroad into the woods, 
and fkipping about like wild bucks, and running 
as faff by moon-light, even in the gloom and 
fhade of the woods, as the other Indians by day, 
being as nimble as they, though not fo ftrong and 
lufty. The copper-coloured Indians feem not to 
refpedt them fo much as thofe of their own com- 
plexion, looking on them as fomething monftrous. 
They are not a didindl race by themfelves ; but 
now and then one is bred of a copper- coloured 
father and mother ; and 1 have feen a child of lefs 
than a year old of this fort. 
Some would be apt to fufpedl they might be the 
offspring of fome European father j but befides that 
the Europeans come little here, and have little ccm- 
merce with the Indian women when they do 
come j thefe white people are as different from the 
Europeans, in fome refpeds, as from the copper- 
coloured Indians in others. And, befides, where an 
European lies with an Indian woman, the child is 
always a Modefe, or Tawny, as is well known to 
all who have been in the W efl-Indies, where there 
are Modefas, Mulattoes, &c. of feveral gradations 
between the white, and the black or copper-co- 
loured, according as the parents are, even to de- 
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