o hunt with the new comers for deer and turkeys, which, when they
had caught, they gave to the English, or sold for knives, beads, and such
like trifles. They also brought them good store of fish, and behaved
themselves very kindly, suffering their women and children to come among
them, which was a certain sign of their confidence in them.

Most of the Indians still follow the religion and customs of their
ancestors; and are not become either more pious or more polite by the
company of the English.

As to their religion, they have all of them some dark notions about God;
but some of them have brighter ones, if a person may be believed who had
this confession from the mouth of an Indian: "That they believed God was
universally beneficent; that his dwelling was in heaven above, and the
influence of his goodness reached to the earth beneath; that he was
incomprehensible in his excellence, and enjoyed all possible felicity;
that his duration was eternal, his perfection boundless, and that he
possessed everlasting happiness." So far the savage talked as rationally
of the existence of a God as a Christian divine or philosopher could have
done; but when he came to justify their worshipping of the Devil, whom
they call Okee, his notions were very heterodox. He said, "It is true
God is the giver of all good things, but they flow naturally and
promiscuously from him; that they are showered down upon all men without
distinction; that God does not trouble himself with the impertinent
affairs of men, nor is concerned at what they do, but leaves them to make
the most of their free will, and to secure as many as they can of the
good things that flow from him; that therefore it was to no purpose
either to fear or worship him; but, on the contrary, if they did not
pacify the evil spirit, he would ruin their health, peace, and plenty, he
being always visiting them in the air, thunders, storms, &c."

As to the idol which they all worship, and is kept in a temple called
Quiocasan, he seemed to have a very different opinion of its divinity,
and cried out against the juggling of the priests.--This man did not talk
like a common savage, and therefore we may suppose he had studied the
matter more than his countrymen, who, for the generality, paid a great
deal of devotion to the idol, and worshipped him as their chief deity.

Their priests and conjurors are highly reverenced by them. They are
given extremely to pawning or conjuring; and o