his Feet; our Cloaths incumbered his Body; he would accept of nothing; at length, he was obſerved to take up a Blanket, and ſeemed to take great Pleaſure in wrapping himſelf up in it. You muſt allow, ſaid the Europeans about him, that this, at leaſt, is an uſeful Piece of Furniture? Yes, anſwered the Indian, I think it almoſt as good as the Skin of a Beaſt. And even this he would not have allowed, had he wore both under a Shower.
Perhaps I may be told that it is Habit, which, making every Man like beſt his own Way of Life, hinders the Savages from perceiving what is good in ours. But upon this Footing it muſt appear at leaſt very extraordinary, that Habit ſhould have more Power to maintain in Savages a Reliſh for their Miſery, than in Europeans for their Happineſs. But to make to this last Objection an Anſwer which will not admit the leaſt Reply, without ſpeaking of all the young Savages whom no Pains have been able to civilize; particularly the Greenlanders and Icelanders, whom Attempts have been made to rear and educate in Denmark, and who either pined away with Grief aſhore,
