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grow weak, we lose our dear friends and are aiilicted, 

 and this is chiefly owing to your young men. 



Surely you cannot suppose to get either riches or 

 possessions by going thus out to war ; for when you kill 

 a deer you have the flesh to eat and the skin to sell, but 

 when you return from war you bring nothing home but 

 the scalp of a dead man, who, perhaps, was husband to 

 a kind wife, and father to tender children, who never 

 wronged you, though by losing him you have robbed 

 them of this help and protection, and at the same time 

 got nothing by it. 



If I were not your true friend, I would not take th& 

 trouble of saying all these things to you, which I desire 

 may be fully related to all your people, when you return 

 homo, that they may consider in time what is for their 

 OAvn good; and after this, if any will be so madly deaf 

 and blind as neither to hear nor sea the danger before 

 them, but will still go out to destroy and be destroyed for 

 nothing, I must desire that foolish young men will take 

 another path, and not pass this way amongst our people, 

 whose eyes I have opened and they have wisely hearkened 

 to my advice. So that I must tell them plainly, as I am 

 their best friend, and this Government is their protector, 

 and as a father to them. We will not suffer them 

 any more to go out as they have done to their destruc- 

 tion. I say again, we will not suffer it, for we have the 

 counsel of wisdom amongst us, and know v/hat is for 

 their good; for though they are weak, yet they are our 

 brethren. We will therefore take care of them tliat they 

 are not misled with ill council; you mourn when you 

 lose a brother, we mourn when any of them are 

 lost; to prevent which, they shall not be suffered to go, 

 out as they have done tQ,t>q destroyed by war,,. 



