ANECDOTE. 261 
tion at finding those upon ray piece so superior 
to what they perhaps had before seen. 
It is not every new scene either, which to 
them, one would imagine, could not fail to 
appear wonderful, that will excite their admi¬ 
ration. . 
A French writer, I forget who, tells us of 
some Iroquois Indians that walked through 
several of the finest streets of Paris, hut with¬ 
out expressing the least pleasure at any thing 
they saw, until they at last came to a cook’s 
shop * this called forth their warmest praise; 
a shop where a man was always sure of getting 
something to satisfy his hunger, without the 
trouble and fatigue of hunting and fishing, was 
in their opinion one of the most admirable 
institutions possible; had they been told, how¬ 
ever, that they must have paid for what they 
eat, they would have expressed equal indigna¬ 
tion perhaps at what they saw. In their own 
villages they have no idea of refusing food to 
ahy person that enters their habitation in qua¬ 
lity of a "friend. 
The Indians, whom curiosity or business 
leads to Philadelphia, or to any other of the 
large towns in the States, find, in general, as 
little deserving of notice in the streets and 
houses there as these Iroquois at Paris, and 
there is not one of them but what would prefer 
hit own wigwam to the most splended habita- 
