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Testimony of place only, on other than Canadian soil, let us 



Canadian Fur J, 



Traders listen, to the naive confessions of a trader of one 



of the great Canadian Companies, at the time 

 when the competition between them &quot;drove 

 their agents to all lengths to get furs, and drunk 

 enness amongst the Indians was at its worst.&quot; 



&quot;Sunday, January 1st, 1801. I gave my men 

 some high wine, flour, and sugar; the Indians 

 purchased liquor, and by sunrise every soul of 

 them was raving drunk even the children.&quot; 



&quot;April 30th, 1804. Indians having asked for 

 liquor, and having promised to decamp and hunt 

 well all summer, I gave them some. Grande 

 Gueule stabbed Capot Rouge, Le Boeuf stabbed 

 his young wife in the arm. Little Shell almost 

 beat his mother s brains out with a club, and there 

 was terrible fighting among them. I sowed 

 garden seeds&quot; 



Rev. j. west, Hear the testimony of the Reverend John 

 West, the first clergyman at the Red River. 

 &quot;The Indians have been greatly corrupted in 

 their simple and barbarous manners by their 

 intercourse with Europeans, many of whom have 

 scarcely any other mark of the Christian char 

 acter than the name ; and who have not only fallen 

 into the habits of an Indian life, but have fre 

 quently exceeded the savage in their savage 

 customs.&quot; 



Present Day If we should think that even the time of the 



Testimony R evere nd John West is a long way off ; and that 

 nothing of the sort could possibly take place in 

 our day, let us listen, lastly, to a present-day 



