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Their treatment of prifoners, 134. Their fortitude undertorture, 136. Never eat human Defh but to gratifyrevenge, 139. How the South-Americans treated theirprifoners, 140. Their military education, 141. Strangemethod of chufmg a captain, among the Indians on thebanks of the Orinoco, 142. Their numbers waited bycontinual wars, 145. Their tribes now recruit then-numbers by adopting prifoners, 146* Are never for-midable in war, to more polilhed nations, 147. Theirarts, drefs, and ornaments, 148, 149. Their habit-ations , 132. Their arms , 155. Their domelticutenfils , 136. Conltruction of their canoes, 157. Theliftlelfnefs with which they apply to labor, i$g. Theirreligion, 160. Some tribes altogether deftitute of any,163. Remarkable diverlity in their religious notions , 167.Their ideas of the immortality of the foul, 170. Theirmodes of burial, 172-. "Why their Phyticians pretend tobe conjurers , 174. Their love of dancing, 177. Theirimmoderate paffion for gaming, igi. Are extremelyaddidted to drunkennefs, 182. Put their aged and in-curable to death , 186. General eftimate of their

character , 187. Their intellectual powers, 188- Theirpolitical talents , i 89 - Powers of affection, 191. Hard-nefs of heart, 192. Their infenfibility, 193. Taci-turnity, 19$. Their cunning , 196. Their virtues , 198.Their fpirit of independence , ibid. Fortitude , ibid.Attachment to their community, 199. Their fatisfactiohwith their own condition, 200. General caution withrefpect to this inquiry, 203. Two diftinguilhable claffesof, 203. Exceptions as to their character, 20 6> Theircharacter]'flic features defcribed , 403. Inftances of theirperfevering fpeed , ibid. An antipathy indultrioully en-couraged between them and the negroes in America, bythe Spaniards, im 266. Their prefent condition, 267.How taxed, ib. Stated fervices demanded from them, 268-Mode of exadtirig thefe fervices, 269. How governed,270. Protedtor of the Indians , his function, 27 1. ReafonSwhy fo fmail a progrefe is made in their conveifion, 28a*Voi. Ill, E e

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