INDIAN FJL.UTE. 
out of the instrument,, and stop the holes, 
which any one may do, tlunks himself master 
of it; and the notes which they commonly 
produce are as unconnected and unmeaning’ as 
those which a child would bring forth from a 
halfpenny whistle. 
In addition to what I have said on the sub¬ 
ject of the Indians, I shall only observe, that 
notwithstanding they are such a very friendly 
hospitable people, yet few persons, who had 
ever tasted of the pleasures and comforts of ci¬ 
vilized life, would feel any inclination to reside 
amongst them, on becoming acquainted with 
their manner of living. The filthiness and 
wretchedness of their smoky habitations, the 
nauseousness of their common food to a person 
not even of a delicate palate, and their general 
uncleanliness, would be sufficient, I think, to 
deter any one from going to live amongst them 
from choice, supposing even that no other 
reasons operated against his doing so. For my 
own part, I had fully determined in my own 
mind, when I first came to America, not to 
leave the continent without spending a consi¬ 
derable time amongst them, in the interior parts 
of the country, in order to have an opportunity 
of observing their native manners and cus¬ 
toms in their utmost purity ; but the samples I 
have seen of them during my stay in this part of 
the country, although it has given me a most 
