nor tail are discernible so that those wretched Brutes may be mistaken for moving hillocks[.]

In common w^t the rest of the ancient inhabitants of this Continent the Nascapees are in all their habits of Body filthy and nasty in the extreme. Their garments particularely swarm with vermin which having beat out of their warm recesses with a stick they 'destroy in ten thousands with the Jaw Bone of an ass'. Free from their infancy however from restraint and forced early to think and act for themselves they acquire much cunning and sagacity in whatever may concern their own manner of life. And if we find none amongst them who can please the eye by his cleanliness yet we meet with some who are endowed with sufficient natural sense to puzzle the Cloistered Pedant.

Attempts have been made by the missionaries to convert such as have come within their reach to Christianity – but it is hard to teach tricks to an old Dog and no less so is it to convince a Nascapee that our notions of Religion are preferable to his own which have been taught him by his parents and instilled into him by long habits

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