. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. J i h ! i S! I i. 402 March 1749/ thunder, they (aid that the evil fpirit was angry ; fome of them (aid that they bdiered in a God, who lives in heaven. The old Swede once
. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. J i h ! i S! I i. 402 March 1749/ thunder, they (aid that the evil fpirit was angry ; fome of them (aid that they bdiered in a God, who lives in heaven. The old Swede once walked with an Indian^ and they met with a red-fpotted fnake on the road: the old man therefore went to feek a ftick in order to kill the fnakc; but the In- dian begged he would not touch it, bccaufc he adored it: perhaps the Swedevfowld not have killed it, but on hearing that it was the/;?^Ws deity, he took a ftick and killed it, in the prefence of the /«- dian, faying : Becaufe thou believeft in it, I think myfelf obliged to kill it. Sometimes the Indians came into the Swedijh churches, looked at them, heard them, and went away again, after a while- One day as this old Swede was at church, and did not fing, becaufe he had no pfalm-book by him, one of the Indians, who was well acquainted with him, tapped him on the fhoulder, and faid: Why dojl thou not Jing with the others, Tantanta! Tantanta ! ^Tantanta F On another occafion, as a fermon was preached in the Swedi/h church at Raccoon, an Indian came in» looked about him; and, after hearkening a while to the preacher, he faid : Here is a great deal of prattle and non* fenfe, but neither brandy nor cyder j and went out again. For it is to be obferved, that when an Indian makes a fpeech to his companions, in or- der to encourage them to war, or to any thing elfe, they all drink immoderately on thofc occafions. At the time when the Swedes arrived, they bought land at a very inconfiderable price. For a piece of baize, or a pot f
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