rder.

This he instituted to encourage Gentlemen to venture backwards, and make
Discoveries and new Settlements; any Gentleman being entitled to wear
this Golden Shoe that can prove his having drank _His Majesty's Health_,
upon MOUNT GEORGE.

He built a Fort called _Christanna_, which tho' not so far back, yet
proved of great Service and Use; where at his sole Expence (I think) I
have seen Seventy Seven _Indian Children_ at a Time at School, under the
careful Management of the worthy Mr. _Charles Griffin_, who lived there
some Years for that Purpose; from whom I have been informed of most of
the _Indian_ Customs and Principles, that I here mention, except such as
I have seen and known my self.

These Children could all read, say their Catechisms and Prayers
tolerably well; but this pious Design being laid aside thro' the
Opposition of Trade and Interest, Mr. _Griffin_ was removed to the
College to teach the _Indians_, instructed there by the Benefaction of
the _Honourable Mr. Boyle_.

The _Indians_ so loved and adored him, that I have seen them hug him and
lift him up in their Arms, and fain would have chosen him for a _King_
of the _Sapony_ Nation.

The _Southern Indians_, that came several hundred Miles to meet the
_Governor_, there to treat of War, and Peace, and Trade, though they had
several murthered by their own _Northern_ Enemies, (even under the
Mouths of our great Guns, and whilst we were there) which made them
somewhat jealous that we had betray'd them; yet left several Children
under his Care, and engaged themselves to send more, though they
themselves would not relinquish their Barbarity; for they in reasoning
with us by Interpreters, asked Leave to be excused from becoming as we
are; for they thought it hard, that we should desire them to change
their Manners and Customs, since they did not desire us to turn
_Indians_: However, they permitted their Children to be brought up in
our Way; and when they were able to judge for themselves, they were to
live as the ENGLISH, or as the INDIANS, according to their best liking.

The _Indians_ have a blind Worship and Sacrifice, Priests, and
Physicians, and Expiation, with howling Lamentations and Purgation at
their Burials: All which I have seen at the Funeral of their Slain at
_Christanna_, whom they buried thus; having made Holes like Saw-Pits,
and lined them with Bark and Sticks, they wrapped the Bodies in the best
Cloth they could buy with the Skins of the