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liquor is rum, without any mixture. This the 

 English bring amongst them, and buy skins, furs, 

 slaves and other of their commodities therewith. 

 They never are contented with a little, but when 

 once begun, they must make themselves quite 

 drunk ; otherwise they will never rest, but sell all 

 they have in the world, rather than not have their 

 full dose. In these drunken frolics, which are 

 always carried on in the night, they sometimes 

 murder one another, fall into the fire, fall down 

 precipices, and break their necks, with several 

 other misfortunes which this drinking of rum 

 brings upon them ; and though they are sensible 

 of it, yet they have no power to refrain this ene- 

 my. About five years ago, when Landgrave 

 Daniel was governor, he summoned in all the In- 

 dian kings and rulers to meet, and in a full meet- 

 ing of the government and council, with those In- 

 dians, they agreed upon a firm peace, and the In- 

 dian rulers desired no rum might be sold to them, 

 which was granted, and a law made, tjiat inflicted 

 a penalty on those that sold rum to the heathens ; 

 but it was never strictly observed, and besides 

 the young Indians were so disgusted at that 

 article, that they threatened to kill the Indians 

 that made it, unless it was laid aside, and they 

 might have rum sold them, when they went to the 

 Englishmens' houses to buy it. 



Some of the heathens are so very poor that they 

 have no manner of clothes, save a wad of moss to 

 hide their nakedness. These are either lusty and 



