Influence of European manners upon the morals of the wild Inhabitant of the woods.

This heterogeneous and most wretched species of the human race pass the summer along the Coast either to steal or trade a bottle of their only God, Rum – and they spend the summer or I should say the winter in a half starved state between the sea shore and the interior pillaging wrecks or any thing else which the waves cast in their way and killing a few straggling Beavers Martens or Otters.

Being enervated by their slothful habits, too free an indulgence in the all of spirituous liquors and in Debaucheries of every kind their minds are stupid their persons diminutive and their Constitutions weak. The Features of most of them resemble those of Europeans but on Sundays and holydays, the only times they undergo a thorough scrubbing and the real Colour of their skin is visible, their faces look as if they had the Jaundice[.]

The men imitate the Canadians in their dress and tie their black bristly

hair

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