to excess, both their faces and shirts:  their favourite colour is red.  The women generally cultivate the ground, and the men are all fishermen and canoe makers.  Upon the whole, I never met any nation that were so simple in their manners as these people, or had so little ornament in their houses.  Neither had they, as I ever could learn, one word expressive of an oath.  The worst word I ever heard amongst them when they were quarreling, was one that they had got from the English, which was, ‘you rascal.’  I never saw any mode of worship among them; but in this they were not worse than their European brethren or neighbours:  for I am sorry to say that there was not one white person in our dwelling, nor any where else that I saw in different places I was at on the shore, that was better or more pious than those unenlightened Indians; but they either worked or slept on Sundays:  and, to my sorrow, working was too much Sunday’s employment with ourselves; so much so, that in some length of time we really did not know one day from another.  This mode of living laid the foundation of my decamping at last.  The natives are well made and warlike; and they particularly boast of having never been conquered by the Spaniards.  They are great drinkers of strong liquors when they can get them.  We used to distil rum from pine apples, which were very plentiful here; and then we could not get them away from our place.  Yet they seemed to be singular, in point of honesty, above any other nation I was ever amongst.  The country being hot, we lived under an open shed, where we had all kinds of goods, without a door or a lock to any one article; yet we slept in safety, and never lost any thing, or were disturbed.  This surprised us a good deal; and the Doctor, myself, and others, used to say, if we were to lie in that manner in Europe we should have our throats cut the first night.  The Indian governor goes once in a certain time all about the province or district, and has a number of men with him as attendants and assistants.  He settles all the differences among the people, like the judge here, and is treated with very great respect.  He took care to give us timely notice before he came to our habitation, by sending his stick as a token, for rum, sugar, and gunpowder, which we did not refuse sending; and at the same time we made the utmost preparation to receive his honour and his train.  When he came with his tribe, and all our neighbouring chieftains, we expected to find him a grave reverend judge, solid and sagacious; but instead of that, before he and his gang came in sight, we heard them very clamorous; and they even had plundered some of our good neighbouring Indians, having intoxicated themselves with our liquor.  When they arrived we did not know what to make of our new guests, and would gladly have dispensed with the honour of their company.  However, having no alternative, we feasted them plentifully all the day till the evening; when the governor, getting quite drunk, grew very unruly,