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the operations of the spirit, and if beasts could speak, I 
would give them in preference the Carib language. 
They have no word to express religious things or justice; 
and of virtues and sciences they have no knowledge. 
They can only name three or four countries. The Rever- 
end Father SlMON of the Society of JESUS, who has 
worked with great zeal to convert them, compiled a 
dictionary with a grammar, or simple catechism ; and 
some familiar discourses on the divine mysteries of our 
belief. I could extend this pamphlet, but enough has 
already been said to make known the Caribs. There is 
only a little nation left of them. Moreover, they destroy 
themselves daily ; and the English endeavour to destroy 
them utterly. God, I believe, permits the whole of Europe 
to seize upon the county of these people, because they 
are so great a disgrace to their Creator, whom they will 
not recognise. Notwithstanding all that has been told 
them during the last twenty years, they laugh at it ; and 
the only hope of making them Christians, would be first 
to civilise them and make them men. Providence which 
does nothing without a motive will at her own time pro- 
vide for this. 
