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to fix their moveable abodes. The inhabitants live in a ſtate of nature, ſequeſtered from the tumult of buſtling crowds: their wants, which are few, are eaſily ſatiſfied; and their manners are rendered ſimple, from the unvarying tenor of their lives, and their remote diſtance from great towns and cities, where vice finds an aſylum amidſt luxury and diſſipation, and guilty greatneſs lords it over the trembling wretch who crouches at her feet. Between the villages, we obſerved a few ſcattered huts, built by ſome European adventurers, as a temporary reſidence, while they are employed in cutting down timber which they ſent to different parts
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