mane; their hospitality is so great tlhat they extend it to every one who is not their enemy They speak with much judgment and reason, and, when they lhave any imporiant enterprise to un dertake, the chief is attentirely listened to for two or tiree hours together, and he is answered point to point, as the subject may require."

In 1656 the Jesuit missionarios among tlhe Iroquois reported "Among many faults caused by their blindness and barbarous education, we meet with virtues enough to cause siiame among tlie most of Christians. Hospitals for the poor would be useless among them, becuuse there are no beggars; thosc wlo have are so liberal to those who are in want, that everything is enjoyed in The whole vilags must be in distress before any indi- common. vidual is left in necessity."

Captain Carver, who travelled in 1766 among the wildest tribes, describcs them as crucl, barbarous, and revengeful in war, per severing and inflexible in pursuit of an enemy, sanguinary in thcir treatment of prisoners, and sparing neitlher age nor sex." On the otlher and, he found them temperate in their mode of living, pa tient of hunger and fatigue, sociable and humane to all whom they looked on as friends, and ready to slare with them the last niorsel of food they possessed, or to expose their lives in their de fence. In thcir public character he describes them as posscss ing an attachment to their nation unknown to the inhabitants of auy other country, combining as if actuated by one soul against a common enemy, never swayed in their councils by selfish or party views, but sacrificing everything to the lhonor and advan tage of their tribe, in support of which they fear no danger, and are affeeted by no sufferings. They are not only affectionately at tached, indeed, to their own offspring, but are cxtremcly fond of children in general. They instruct them earefully in their own principles, and train them up with attention in the maxims and habits of their nation. Thcir system cousists clicfly in the influ- ence of example, and impressing on them the traditionary his tories of their ancestors. When the children act wrong, their parents remonstrate and reprimand but never chastise them." HALKETT's Hist. Notes.

The very idea of eorporal punishment of little children seems to bave been peculiarly obnoxious to the native North American In the Relation de Nonvelle France," published in 1633, there is a curious story of an incident which took place at Quebec. A arty of Indians, watehing a French drummer-boy beat his drum,