lids as he gazed upon her; he feared and yet she wished to know the Caufe of this Difquietude.

ONE Day as Cannaffatego wandered in the Woods alone, Yarico followed him unperceived; he placed himself befide a Rock, over-hung with fhady Pines which waved to the hollow Wind, by the Side of which fell a fmall Stream of Water in dripping Rills; to this Place fhe came and stood behind him undifcovered.

"CRUEL Fate," he cried, "to love and be be"loved, and yet denied to gaze upon the Charms of "her my Soul adores, for countless waxing, waneing "Moons! is it not more than human Nature can "fuftain and live? Oh Honour! falfe delufive Bond "of Human Minds."

AT thefe Words, Yarico imagined, that the Heart of Cannaffatego had been engaged by fome former Paffion to a happier Female, and her Absence had preffed him to this Exclamation.

BANEFUL as the Blight from Heaven thefe Words reached her Soul; the immediately flept forward, when Cannaffatego, furprized at her Prefence, ftarting from the Rock, cried," my Yarico," and clasped her to his Bofom," my Soul, what brought you to this

Place of Solitude and Woe? Is there a Spot on "Earth where Solitude and Woe can dwell, and yet "contain my Cannassatego? Oh tell me, why you fhun

my Eyes that die to gaze upon thee, why did you "utter thofe Heart-felt Sighs, thofe boding Words "which escaped your Lips; the Moment before you perceived me, tell me I implore you.

BELIEVE me, if my Love is the Caufe of all this Mifery, tho' Death must be the Confequence of "my Refolution, I give you freely to my Rival's "Arms; for know, my dear Deliverer, that Yarico can tafte no Joy but in reciprocal Affection. You gave me Life, I give you Liberty."

"WHAT Ineans my lovely Maid, what means my "Soul's Ambition and Delight? Alas! I feel no Pain "but what proceeds from you alone, my more than "Life and Liberty. Shall I declare, I dread to tell thee," replied the Indian Chief.

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"OH tell me all, what cannot Tarico fuftain, if you are still but mine alone," she answered.

KNOW then, before I had revealed my Paffion to thy Heart, prompted by Love of more than mor"tal Glory, I had refolved in the Affembly of the Onnondagan Sachems, to vifit the European Regi

ons; this whilft my Honour urges me to execute, "the exceffive Love which throbs within this Breaft "for thee my beauteous Maid, would chace as vifionary Phantoms that haunt me to my Ruin; from this Thought fprang the Words you heard me utter: Oh Yarico, how fhall Love and Honour be at once obeyed, how fhall I prefs thee in thefe Arms infeparable, and yet not lofe my Glory? How fly "beyond the rifing Morn, and leave thee in thefe "Realms behind? Thence fprings my Woe, this is "the fole Claufe of fecluding myfelf from thy Sight. "To behold thee with Excefs of Fondness, and think "of quitting thee, is more than I can bear."

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"MAKE me the Partner of the Voyage," the cried, "thefe Limbs fhall tread the long and dreary Road, "this Heart fupply me Courage in the Journey, my "Tales fhall fweeten thee to Reft, my Arms fhall "fhield my Love from Danger."

"ALAS! my Yarico, thou art too delicately formed "to dare the Undertaking; 'tis not to wafte whole "Moons in weary Marches, to dread the infidious "Ambush of our Foes, that makes the Terror of "this Voyage; the wide extenfive Water which Hea<< ven in vain has placed to fecure us from the Inva"fion of our European Oppreffors must be traversed;

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Dangers unknown to me, beyond a Female's feeble "Frame to bear, compofe the Horrors of this Undertaking; let us appeal to Decaneffera, let him de"termine what shall be my Fate, fhall I be thine this << Day, or wafte whole tedious Revolutions of the "Sun, to make me yet more worthy of thy Beauties "and Acceptance."

HAVING thus difcourfed together, the hung upon his Arm gazing often on his Face; his Soul became lighter with the Declaration of his Feelings and Situation, her's felt Difquietude and Pain of lofing him.

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Stock-Doves and Turtles cooed amongst the Branches as they past along, a confcious Approbation of their Conftancy, innocent and beauteous as the firft Human Pair in the Garden of Eden, thus they directed their Steps to the Abode of Decanefora.

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Men and Women amongst the Indians, much like thofe amongst the Britons. Garangula's Opinion of the Joys of Love, very different from those of Yarico. First Rife of drawing Faces in America, perhaps in every other Place. Love in feveral Shapes, and a whole Day's Journey.

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EING returned to the Houfe of Decanefora, Yarico was impatient till the Appeal was made to him and his Wife, whether or not Cannassatego was engaged by his Honour to cross the Ocean to vifit the European Dominions? She knew Decaneffora was of a martial Difpofition, who held the fofter Senfations which attend the Paffion of Love, as mere Ridicule and Degradation of Human Nature; a fenfual Appetite, which like Thirst requires to be fated, and which like ftrong Liquors alfo is apt to intoxicate by too large Potation; he ridiculed the Feelings of the Soul, and the Notion of its being concerned in fuch Propenfities; he always averred that Men like Deer, fhould never be the Companions of Females but at certain Moments, and gave up every Thing of that kind, to Ambition and Glory in military Atchievements.

FROM him Yarico had but little Expectation of Affiftance, in prevailing on her lovely Cannaffatego to decline his intended Voyage; however, in Garangula the Wife, the hoped much Advantage might be de

rived to her Caufe.

SHE imagined, that the Bofom of every Female was animated by the fame Tenderness, that Garangula's Senfations resembled her's, and that their joint Intervention might effectuate all her Defires in this Moment of Sufpence,

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BUT alas! fo unlike is the Frame of Woman thro' the whole Creation; the Forefts of America contain Females as different from each other, as the Ephefian Matron from Penelope: It seems this Indian Dame refembled a Species of Women called Widows, with the Appellation of Buxom added to it, who inhabit a certain Island not more than feven Leagues from the Continent of Europe, and which, whatever was its antient Name, is now known by that of Great-Britain.

THIS Woman therefore, like the aforefaid Widows, had but one way of confidering a Man, which is exactly as the Dealers in Timber do that Commodity, that is according to the Length and Square Inches which he contains, with fome Attention that there is no Mark of Rottennefs within. If the Plant appears thriving without Signs of Decay, one young Man of equal Size and Vigour is thought by this Kind to be very like another young Man of the fame Qualities, and it is not the Value of a Pinch of Snuff difference, which is to be taken, provided there be no Delay in coming at one of them.

Garangula was of this Stamp in Nature, fhe had never confulted the Feelings of her Heart on the Occafion of her Marriage, but taken fpecial Pleasure in obferving that Decaneflora had the broadeft Pair of Shoulders, of all the Cayugan Nation, a Matter of more Confolation to her fenfual Appetite, than all the fentimental Senfations of refined Love, culled from Ten thousand French Romances and poured upon one Heart: In fact, tho' not at all fufpected of being a Philofopher, fhe was greatly inclined to Materialifın, and preferred the Flesh and Blood of a Hufband, to all the refined Touches of Metaphyfics in Love, a true English Taste in that Paffion folid Surloin, in her Opinion, was worth a hundred Ragouts, which only tickled the Palate, but did not fate the Appetite. THIS Evening Cannaffatego propofed to his Friend Decane fora, the Situation he was in between Love and Honour: "This lovely Maid," fays he, " by the "Accident of preferving her Life, and being preferved "by her, has too effectually bound my Hands and "Heart, in the willing Bands of Love; tell me then,

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my dearest Friend, how shall I appear before the "Onnondagan Chiefs, if, relinquishing the Refolution "I have vowed of feeing the European Kingdoms, I give up Glory to the Joys of Love?"

AT thefe Words the Heart of Tarico panted like the new-caught Dove, it trembled in her Bofom with unfpeakable Anxiety for the Anfwer.

"APPEAR before the Onnondagan Chiefs and vio"late thy Honour!" replied the Cayugan with a ftern Expreffion," can it be imagined that violated "Honour can be received among the Indians with "Applaufe will not the Sachems pronounce "that none but Europeans are guilty of that Mean"nefs? The Refolution of thy doing more than other "Indian Chiefs, was great indeed, which is thus an"nihilated by a Woman's Fondnefs; it is Vanity not "Glory which has prompted thee to this Offer; "the Heart warmed with Ainbition for his Country's "Good, can never be changed by Love and soft Effeminacy."

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"BUT confider," answered Yarico, with Looks of Tenderness and Tears.

"I NEVER wafte my Words in prating with a "Woman," answered the Cayugan; "if Cannaffatego "lofes himself with you in Love and Softness, let "him renounce all Thoughts of War and Glory; "fill I may hold him as my Friend, and wonder how a Soul formed for the greatest Darings, can quit "Ambition for a Woman's Arms."

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AT thefe Words Garangula faid, "that fhe did not fee any Difficulty in the Affair, that both Parts " of the Subject might be easily complied with; if Cannaffatego and Yarico be only made thus uneafy by not having tafted the Joys of Love, as he said, "that may be eafily accommodated; let this Night be "the Completion of their Nuptials, and in a Month "perhaps, the Difficulty may be lefs in parting from "each other, than it is at prefent."

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