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whiskey, or chaffering with the hard-featured trader 

 for beads, tobacco, gunpowder, and red paint. 



About the Wabash and its branches, to the east- 

 ward of the Illinois, dwelt tribes of similar lineage, 

 but more warlike in character, and less corrupt in 

 manners. These were the Miamis, in their three 

 divisions, their near kindred, the Piankishaws, and 

 a portion of the Kickapoos. There was another 

 settlement of the Miamis upon the River Maumee, 

 still farther to the east ; and it was here that Brad- 

 street's ambassador, Captain Morris, had met so 

 rough a welcome. The strength of these com- 

 bined tribes was very considerable ; and, one and 

 all, they looked wdth wrath and abhorrence on the 

 threatened advent of the English. 



