Nay, An Indian Will Walk
On The Ridge Of A Barn Or House And Look Down The Gable-End,
And Spit Upon The Ground, As Unconcern'd, As If He Was Walking
On Terra Firma.
In Running, Leaping, or any such other Exercise,
their Legs seldom miscarry, and give them a Fall; and as
For letting
any thing fall out of their Hands, I never yet knew one Example.
They are no Inventers of any Arts or Trades worthy mention;
the Reason of which I take to be, that they are not possess'd
with that Care and Thoughtfulness, how to provide for the Necessaries of Life,
as the Europeans are; yet they will learn any thing very soon.
I have known an Indian stock Guns better than most of our Joiners,
although he never saw one stock'd before; and besides, his Working-Tool
was only a sorry Knife. I have also known several of them that were Slaves
to the English, learn Handicraft-Trades very well and speedily. {No Dwarf.}
I never saw a Dwarf amongst them, nor but one that was Hump-back'd.
Their Teeth are yellow with Smoaking Tobacco, which both Men and Women
are much addicted to. They tell us, that they had Tobacco amongst them,
before the Europeans made any Discovery of that Continent.
It differs in the Leaf from the sweet-scented, and Oroonoko,
which are the Plants we raise and cultivate in America. {Indian Tobacco.}
Theirs differs likewise much in the Smell, when green, from our Tobacco,
before cured.
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