giveing than possesing from the Vanity of wishing to appear Great in the Eyes of their Countrymen and Kindred, yet as long as they have if they cease to give they cease to be respect'd, and Esteem'd and the moment the suitor receives the least refusal that instant he ceases to be gratefull and on the main, they are to Gaurd'd against on Account of their Treachery and dissimulation, unworthy of favours & Kindness for their baseness and Ingratitu[de] and to be piti'd for their Ignorance and Superstition[.]

But most of their vices have greatly Increas'd of late Years from the rivalsh[ip] Of traders, as they are encourag'd from mean Interest[']d views, to defraud their Creditors of furs on the credit of which they are their families have been Cloath'd and got the means of subsisting, the Only way to prevent this, is if possible to restrict the trade to persons who should be armed with power to prevent the Incursions of Interlopers, and as they then would find it their Interest, so would they then employ every means (and I am sure with success) to correct the bad morals of the natives[.]

As to their Religion they acknowledge a supreme being and an Evil Spirit but it is very probable they learn'd the from the french Missionaries who travers[']d these countries in search of Aussionarie Proselites when Canada was under the french Government[.]

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