212 " KING GEORGE'S MEN. " 



gent mendicants, who form a burden upon the State. 

 Even among the Indians on Bishop Whipple's side of 

 the line, it used to be a good plan for Englishmen to 

 let the U.S. Indians know, when they met them, 

 who and what they are : they should make themselves 

 known as "a King George's man," and they will not 

 be the less well received in consequence. " King 

 George " of England, * is a name still held in rever- 

 ence and regard amongst the whole of the Indian 

 tribes near the British frontier, and indeed throughout 

 America (though it may please some English radicals 

 of the present day to speak slightingly of the kings of 

 that name) ; forgetful that the foundations of the Brit- 

 ish Empire were firmly laid in those reigns under the 

 stress of wars and difficulties of which the modern 

 Briton can scarcely form an idea. 



What we now enjoy in comparative peace and quiet- 

 ness, our forefathers fought and paid for, both in blood 

 and treasure: yet we hear it continually thrown 

 up to us that in those days taxes were high, and the 

 laws draconic, and so forth; if they were, they were 

 higher and severer elsewhere, while the invaders' troops 

 marched from time to time over the soil of every 

 European country, our own alone excepted; to King 

 George and his advisers we owe our immunity from 

 invasion, and much of our subsequent greatness. These 

 things ought never to be forgotten when we speak of 

 the sovereigns of the House of Hanover. 



But to return to the subject of the forest Indians; 



* The name of King George III. appears on the medals still treasured 

 by the Indian tribes, which they produce with great ceremony when a 

 " King George's man " is presented to them. We have seen numbers 

 of them. They are large pieces quite the size of a crown-piece with 

 a swivel attached by which they can be suspended round the neck. 



