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over wide areas consists, largely, in the fact that 

 for the high death rate due to the hardships and 

 atrocities of savage life, he substituted and con 

 tinued an equally high death rate due to the 

 ravages of fire-water, measles, small-pox and the 

 diseases associated with immorality and vice. 

 Under the organized protection of a Christian 

 community, and with the organized help of the 

 Christian Church, the Indian tribes ought to have 

 doubled in number; whereas, they have either 

 decreased or held their own with the greatest 

 difficulty. 



The earlier efforts to adjust or extinguish the A Bargain 

 Indian title to the land contains some weird 

 notions of comparative values. The record of 

 the transfer of about two-thirds of the county of 

 York, including the site of the city of Toronto, 

 is as follows : 



Mississauga August 1st, 1805; confirming 

 surrender of September 23rd, 1785, for 10 s, &quot;and 

 divers good and valuable considerations given 

 on September 23rd, 1787.&quot; 



On the whole, however, this important matter 

 has been conducted in an orderly manner, with a 

 due regard for the equities of the stituation. The 

 Indians who have entered into treaty relations 

 with the Government are, to-day, in a vastly 

 better position than those who have refused 

 treaty. 



The first treaty was made, with the Indians of Selkirk s 

 the Red River, by the Earl of Selkirk who gave gff Treaty&amp;gt; 

 &quot;each tribe one hundred pounds of tobacco with 



