[Language modernized for clarity] ". . . Because the way of conquering them [Native Americans] is much more easy then of civilizing them by fair means, for they are a rude, barbarous, and naked people, scattered in small companies, which are helps to Victory, but hindrances to Civility: Besides that, a conquest may be of many, and at once; but civility is in particular, and slow, the effect of a long time and great industry. Moreover, victory of them may be gained many ways; by force, by surprise, by famine in burning their Corn, by destroying and burning their Boats, Canoes, and Houses, by breaking their fishing Wares, by assailing them in their huntings, whereby they get the greatest part of their sustenance in Winter, by pursuing them and chasing them with our horses, and blood-Hounds to draw after them and Mastiffs to tear them, which take this naked, tanned, deformed Sausages, for no other than wild beasts, and

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