34 



give for strong liquor, and drown your senses, and kill one an- 

 other, and carry on a dreadful debauchery. Therefore have I 

 driven the wild animals out of the country, for they are mine. 

 If you will do good and cease from your sins I will bring them 

 back ; if not, I will destroy them from off the face of the earth.' 



"I inquired if they believed what the seer had seen and 

 heard. They answered, yes, some believed it would happen 

 so, others also believed it, but gave themselves no concern 

 about it. Time will show, said they, what is to happen to us ; 

 rum will kill us, and leave the land clear for the Europeans 

 without strife or purchase." p. 17. 



Upon another occasion he tells us : 



" This was the hardest and most fatiguing day's journey I had 

 ever made ; my bodily strength was so much exhausted that I 

 trembled and -shook so much all over, I thought I must fall from 

 weariness, and perish. I stepped aside and sat down under a 

 tree to die, which I hoped would be hastened by the cold 

 approaching night. When my companions remarked my ab- 

 sence, they waited for me some time, then returned to seek me, 

 and found me sitting under a tree. But I could not be per- 

 suaded to proceed, for I thought it beyond my power. The 

 entreaties of the old chief and the sensible reasoning of Shi- 

 kelimo* (who said that evil days were better for us than good, 

 for the first often warned us against sins and washed them 

 out, while the latter often enticed us to sin), caused me to alter 

 my resolution, and I arose.'' 



Peter Collinson enlistecl several of his friends to contribute 

 ,10 each, as a yearly stipend, to stimulate, and partially remu- 

 nerate Bartram for his researches and the treasures he sent 

 them from the new world ; and finally had him appointed king's 

 botanist, with a salary of .50 a year. 



The interest expressed by Lord Petre was truly wonderful, 

 and nothing can exceed the mournful outpouring of the heart in 

 a letter which announces the early death of this excellent noble- 

 man, and which, for the pathos of its allusion to the parting, is 

 worthy to be placed along side of Dr. Garden's illustration of 

 how naturalists become attached to each other on their first 

 acquaintance. But the letter must speak for itself. 



* Father of the Logan whom Jefferson has made memorable. 



