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they are immoderately fond, and would not have it 
cut, except on the death of a friend, for any thing 
that you can give them : their eyes are black, and 
the mod beautiful that I ever faw. The red of their 
features vary as thofe of Europeans do. Their dif- 
pofition feems to be of the melancholic kind ; good- 
natured, friendly, and hofpitable to one another, and 
to the Europeans ; and I believe the mod honed 
creatures that are any were to be met with. They 
do not readily forget an injury; but will never re- 
venge it when they are fober. They have no laws 
whereby to regulate their conduit, except that, of 
reafon ; which, in their fober moments, they are 
feldom known to tranfgrefs. They converfe ex- 
tremely well on fubjedts which they underdand, and 
are remarkably clever in repartees ; but feem to have 
very little genius for arts or fcience. They lead an 
erratic life, living in tents, as all people mud do, 
whofe fubfidence depends entirely on hunting. 
They- are not without fome notion of religion, but 
it is a very limited one. They acknowledge two 
Beings; one the author of all good, the other of ail 
evil. The former they call Ukkemah, which ap- 
pellation they give alfo to their chiefs ; and the latter 
they call Wittikah. They pay fome fort of adoration 
to both, though it is difficult to fay what. Their 
opinion of the origin of mankind is, that Ukkemah 
made the fird men and women out of the earth, 
three in number of each; that thofe, whom we Euro- 
peans fprang.from,were made from a whiter earth than 
what their progenitors were, and that there was one 
pair of dill blacker earth than they. They have 
like wife 
