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j ) Ormes Fragtp. p. 412. 12. 463. as much os the Indian
is born deficient in mechanical strength, so
much is his whole frame endowed with an exceeding
degree o f ---- - pyantness. Thje rigid çhumsy
fingers of an European would scarcely be able to
’make a piçce of canvass, with their instruments
Ï which are all that an Indian employs to make a
. piece of cambrick. .
2) Pyrard & $m . Orme p. 463. so is he Endowed
. «with a certain suppleness throughout all his frame,
which enables him to work long in his own degree
of labour, and which renders those contortions
and postures, which would cramp the inha-
, ' ^bitant of northern , regions no constraint to' him.
There are not more extraordinary tumblers in the
world. Their messengers will go fifty miles a day,
for t wen^ or thirty days without intermission, SJîan
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^ »orauèfchidt: p* 22B* les gens sont, souples, comme
du linge, ils se plient tout le corps en boule, et
on les roulé avec la main.
3) 1. c. Their infantry march much faster, and with
f " less weariness, than Europeans j but could not
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