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are conduced with extraordinary regularity and 
decorum. They never interrupt him who is ipe . Ic- 
ing ; nor uie harlh language, whatever may be 
their thoughts. 
The chiefs affume mold authority in the field: 
but this mult be done, even there, with great 
caution ; as a head warrior thinks himielf of 
molt confequence in that place. 
The Indians believe in, and are much afraid of, 
witchcraft : tliofe lufpefted of it are therefore often 
■pun iflied' with death. Several nations are equally 
levere on thole guilty of theft, (a crime indeed 
uncommon among them): but in cales of murder, 
the relations are left to take what revenge they 
pleafe. In general, they are unwilling to inflict 
capital puniihments, as thele defeat their grand 
political objeft, which is, to increale their num- 
bers by all poflible means. 
On their hunts, as upon all other occafions, they 
are drift oblervers of meum and tuum, and this 
from principle, holding theft in contempt ; fo that 
they are rarely guilty of it, though tempted by 
articles of much value. Neither do the itrong 
attempt to feize the prey of the weak ; and 1 
mult do them the jultice to fay, that, unlefs 
heated by liquor or inflamed by revenge, their 
ideas of right and wrong, and their practices in 
confequence of them, would, if more known, 
do them much honor. It is true, that, having 
been often deceived by us in the purchafe of lands, 
in trade, and other tranfaftions, many of them 
begin now to aft the lame part. But this reilefts 
molt on thofe who fet them the example. 
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