If They Are Caught In Theft They Are Slaves Till They Repay
The Person, (As I Mention'd Before) But To Steal From The English
They Reckon No Harm.
Not but that I have known some few Savages
that have been as free from Theft as any of
The Christians.
When they have a Design to lie with a Woman, which they cannot obtain
any otherwise than by a larger Reward than they are able to give,
they then strive to make her drunk, which a great many of them will be;
then they take the Advantage, to do with them what they please,
and sometimes in their Drunkenness, cut off their Hair and sell it
to the English, which is the greatest Affront can be offer'd them.
They never value Time; for if they be going out to hunt, fish,
or any other indifferent Business, you may keep them in talk
as long as you please, so you but keep them in Discourse, and seem pleased
with their Company; yet none are more expeditious and safer Messengers
than they, when any extraordinary Business that they are sent about
requires it.
{Not pass over a Tree.}
When they are upon travelling the Woods, they keep a constant Pace,
neither will they stride over a Tree that lies cross the Path, but always
go round it, which is quite contrary to the Custom of the English,
and other Europeans. {Cut with a Knife how. A Knife of Reed.}
When they cut with a Knife, the Edge is towards them, whereas we
always cut and whittle from us.
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