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only arms were bows and arrows : but there were always 

 wretched travellers or ftragglers, who were fure to fall vidims 

 to their barbarity. 



It was the good fortune of this diftriil to have Mr. Cleve- 

 land placed over it. He boldly entered their country alone, and 

 unarmed ; convened fome of the principal chieftains, and gave 

 them the full affurance of his good intentions ; and by various 

 prefents to them, and their wives and children, gained their 

 confidence. When he found he had fully acquired their 

 friendfbip, and prepared them for the propofed civilization, 

 MOST COMPLETE- lic ordcred uniforms to be made like thofe of the Com- 

 lY RECLAMED. pjjj^y'g Secipoys for a few. He gave them mufquets, and 

 they became regularly drilled. They grew proud of their 

 knowlege. They defired that a battalion might be formed 

 out of them for the prefervation of good order ; and in lefs 

 than two years* thofe very people, who fome time before 

 were as wild and dangerous as the beafts in the foreils, were 

 in 1785 perfectly civilized, and employed in prote(5ling their 

 neighbors whom they were accuftomed to pillage and murder t. 

 A camp was formed for a corps of a thoufand of thofe very 

 men near Bogkpour^ where their families refided with them, 

 and the ftri6teft difcipline obferved. All by the ingenuity, 

 addrefs, and humanity of a fmgle man. This ornament to 

 human nature was loft to India in 1783, and interred at 



• Hodges's Travels, p. p. 88, 89,90. f Broome's Elucidations, p. 213. 



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