and proper Means to cultivate their Minds. In which Opinion I am confirmed by the Experience of ſome who has for ſome Time converſed with us, eſpecially the young ones, who eaſily have taken all what they have ſeen or heard among us, Would grow more witty if they had Means to improve by.whether it was good or bad. I have found ſome of them witty enough, and of good Capacity.
CHAP. X.
Greenlanders have no Magiſtrates or Laws, yet live very honeſtly.Though the Greenlanders are as yet ſubject to no Government, nor know of any Magiſtrates, or Laws, or any ſort of Diſcipline; yet they are ſo far from being lawleſs, or diſorderly, that they are a Law to themſelves; their even Temper, and Good Nature making them obſerve a regular and orderly Behaviour towards one
another.
