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1777. nion, that fuch an intercourfe is one of our greated fecurities 
amongft favages ; and perhaps they who, either from ne- 
ceflity or choice, are to remain and fettle with them, may 
find it fo. But with travellers and tranfient vifiters, fuch as 
we were, it is generally otherwife ; and, in our fituation, a 
connexion with their women betrays more men than it 
faves. What elfe' can be reafonably expected, fince all their 
views are felfifh, without the lead; mixture of regard or at¬ 
tachment ? My own experience, at lead, which hath been 
pretty extendve, hath not pointed out to me one indance to: 
the contrary. 
Amongft our occadonal vifiters, was a chief named Ka~ 
hoora, who, as I was informed, headed the party that cut 
off Captain Furneaux’s people, and himfelf killed Mr. Rowe, 
the officer who commanded. To judge of the character of 
Kahoora, by what I heard from many of his countrymen, 
he feemed to be more feared than beloved amongd them. 
Not fatisded with telling me that he was a very bad man, 
fome of them even importuned me to kill him : and, I be¬ 
lieve, they were not a little furprifed that I did not liden to 
them; for, according to their ideas of equity, this ought to 
have been done. But if I had followed the advice of all 
our pretended friends, I might have extirpated the whole 
race; for the people of each hamlet or village, by turns, 
applied to me to dedroy the other. One would have ai¬ 
med thought it impodible, that fo driking a proof of the 
divided date in which this miferable people live, could 
have been adigned. And yet I was fure that 1 did not 
mifconceive the meaning of thofe who made thefe drange 
applications to me; for Omai, whofe language was a dialed: 
of their own, and perfectly underdood all that they faid, 
was our interpreter. 
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