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BNL.765.024
20 Jun 1765:23 (3200 Extraordinary)
Extract of a letter from the Hague. A Jew having trapanned
into this country two American Indians, uncle and nephew, of
a nation bordering on Pennsylvania, took it into his head to
make a shew of them. He exposed the nephew here, and placed
the uncle at Amsterdam: but two persons of the first rank in
this country, fired with indignation at seeing two
foreigners kept for public shew who were born free, tho'
savages, caused them to be set at liberty; and Sir Joseph
York, the British Ambassador, provided them with necessaries
for a passage to London, from whence they will be conducted
to their own country. Before their departure they were
introduced to a ball, where on request, they set up the war
whoop used among their own people. As they could speak a
little English, we had the curiosity to know what they
thought of the European ladies; and they frankly declared
that they gave the preference to the women of their own
country.
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