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 his Feet; our Cloaths incumbered his Body; he would accept of nothing; at length, he was oberved to take up a Blanket, and eemed to take great Pleaure in wrapping himelf up in it. You mut allow, aid the Europeans about him, that this, at leat, is an ueful Piece of Furniture? Yes, anwered the Indian, I think it almot as good as the Skin of a Beat. And even this he would not have allowed, had he wore both under a Shower.

Perhaps I may be told that it is Habit, which, making every Man like bet his own Way of Life, hinders the Savages from perceiving what is good in ours. But upon this Footing it mut appear at leat very extraordinary, that Habit hould have more Power to maintain in Savages a Relih for their Miery, than in Europeans for their Happines. But to make to this last Objection an Anwer which will not admit the leat Reply, without peaking of all the young Savages whom no Pains have been able to civilize; particularly the Greenlanders and Icelanders, whom Attempts have been made to rear and educate in Denmark, and who either pined away with Grief ahore,