as it would be, with us, for one to lit down and put on his 
hat, when he addrelfes himfelf to his fuperior, and that 
fuperior on his feet, and uncovered. 
It does not, indeed, appear, that any of the molt civil¬ 
ized nations, have ever exceeded this people, in the great 
order obferved, on all occalions; in ready compliance with 
the commands of their Chiefs; and in the harmony that 
fublilts throughout all ranks, and unites them, as if they 
were all one man, informed with, and directed by, the fame 
principle. Such a behaviour is remarkably obvious, when¬ 
ever it is requilite that their Chiefs fhould harangue any 
body of them collected together, which is frequently done. 
The moll profound lilence and attention is obferved during 
the harangue, even to a much greater degree than is prac- 
tifed amongft us, on the moll interelting and ferious deli¬ 
berations of our moll reipedtable ahemblies. And, what¬ 
ever might have been the fubjedt of the fpeech delivered, 
we never faw an inltance, when any individual prefent, 
fhewed ligns of his being difpleafed, or that indicated the 
leall inclination to difpute the declared will of a perfon who 
had a right to command. Nay, fuch is the force of thefe 
verbal laws, as I may call them, that I have feen one of 
their Chiefs exprefs his being allonilhed, at a perfon’s hav- 
in adted contrary to fuch orders; though it appeared, that 
the poor man could not pollibly have been informed, in 
time, to have obferved them A 
Though fome of the more potent Chiefs my vie with the 
king in point of adlual polfellions, they fall very Ihort in 
rank, and in certain, marks of refpedt, which the colledtive 
* Cantova gives us the fame account of the profound fubmiffton of the Caroline Ifland- 
ers, to the orders of the Tamole. tt Ils re^oivent fes ordres avec le plus profond refpedt. 
“ Ses paroles font autant d’oracles, qu’on revere.” Lettres Edijxantn et Gurteufes, Tom. xv. 
p. 312. 
