44 The LI F E of the Part III try, and after to feed on the Indian Bread, tothe prefervation of their Lives. Bur e'er long, theEngle Wheat profpered again;and then the Europeans fell hato three Parties among themfelves. One Party joyned with the Indians, and faid the Indian Bread is bell ; for that toyed our Lives when the EngliJh failed us : Therefore it !hall he madeBanifhment or Imprifonment to fow or fpeak for the EnglOO (orEuro- pean) Grain or Bread. Another Party reviled thofe that drew their Fathers to cat Indian Bread, and faid, Ihall we be befooled, and go againft our Nature, and our commonSenfes, our Talk, our experience of Strengthand Vivacity? Do we not fee that the Englifh is belt ? Therefore theywere Traytors that drew our Fore fathersto eat the others, and thefe are inhuman Tyrants thatnow compel Mento it. But the third party faid, The EngljBread is bell, which we never denyed ; but the Indian Bread was a thoufand fold better than none: we only ufed it when we could get no better ; which was no changing of our Minds, but of our PraCice. And we will do the like in the like cafe ofneceflity. Yea, though it grieveth es tobe put to it by our own Countrey-men, we will rather eat now the Indian Bread, than be famithed by Banilhment, or in a Prifon. How this Controverfie will end, time will Phew : But every fide bath fo learned Men, that it's never like to end by Dit- puting; for every one can fhame his Adverfary's Words. But either another Famine, or a plenty of European Bread, with liberty to life it, is like to end it, if it ever end. § io,. The like Controverfie fell out in the Indies; whether Allis or Horfes were tobe preferred, as fitteft for Man's ufe. The Indians faid Alts becaufe ithad been their Countreys rife; and Horfes werefo unruly, that theywould run awaywith the Rider, and caft their Burdens, to the danger of Men's Lives. The Europeans faid, the Horfes might be fo ufed, as to be more tame, and fo madefar more ufefal than the Affes; and Tome little inconveniencies and perils muff be endured for a greater good. At laC, all theEuropean horfesdyed; and then the Engle fell into Difference, whether it were lawful to rideon Allis: Some faid no, and aggravated their bafenefs: Some faid yea, when we can have rio better. But whenthe Land was again Cored with European Horfes, the Englifh fell into juft fuch a Differenceas before. Some would have all the Engifto Horfes kill'd, and thole banilhedor im- prifoned that world ufe them: And they faid, Do we not fee by long experience, that Colts cannot be tamed, nor made trafable, except to a few, that ufe to ride them? And all that never had skill to tame them, or that had ever catch'd a fall by them, were on this fide. Others faid, it was not lawful to ufe an Afs, but yet they wouldhave none denyed liberty herein, five only that the Boys that fee him, Mould have leave to hoot. The third fort preferred Horfes, but yet would have every Man have liberty to ufe a Horte oran Afs as he pleated, and none to have li- berty to hoot at them, or openly deride them on either tide. The Matter came before the Judges. The firs fort confeffed, that Horfes made a fairer Ihesv, but that was their Hypocritie; and that they went fwiflier, but it wasto the Rider's overthrow : And faid, what need you more than all our Experience; when all we. have been raft by them, to the hazard of our Lives : And we only are the King's heft SubjeCs, and therefore by cafting us you would depofe the King, and what- ever you pretend, you are Traytors, and this lyeth at the bottom. For no Sub- jeCs, no King ; and ifwe mutt ride on Horfes, we (had be no Subje8s long. And to have Tome ufe Fortesand tone Altes, will breed Faffions and endlets Divifions amongft us; and what a ridiculous Monffer will it make the Kingdom? They that cite Horfes will Cill be deriding them that ride on Affes, ere. Theother anfwered them s. That the main caufe of their misfortunes camefrom their own unskilful- nets, and diflife, who had not Patience to learn to ride, nor Humility to confefs theirunskilfulnefs. And that it were better for the Kingdom, that thole that have more skill to tame Colts, and ride Fortes, were fuffered to furnifh theKing and Kingdomwith that nobler Breed, than to dilhonousnit, and wrong fo many, to ferve the ignorance or Iluggifhnefs of forne. The
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