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well acquainted with him, tapped him on 

 the moulder, and faid : Why doft thou not 

 f,ng with the others, %antanta ! Tantanki I 

 "Tantantaf On another occaiion, as a fer- 

 mon was preached in the Swedijh church, 

 at Raccoon, an Indian came in, looked 

 about him ; and, after hearkening a while 

 to the preacher, he faid : Here is a great 

 deal of prattle and wnfenfe, but neither 

 brandy nor cyder ; and went out again. 

 For it is to be obferved, that when an In- 

 dian makes a fpeech to his companions, in 

 order to encourage them to war, or to any 

 thing elfe, they all drink immoderately on 

 thofe occaiion s. 



At the time when the Swedes arrived, 

 they bought land at a very inconfiderable 

 price. For a piece of baize, or a pot full 

 of brandy, or the like, they could get a 

 piece of ground, which at prefent would be 

 worth more than four hundred pounds, 

 Penfylvania currency. When they fold a 

 piece of land, they commonly figned an 

 agreement ; and though they could neither 

 read nor write, yet they fcribbled their 

 marks, or iignatures, at the bottom of it. 

 The father of old Nils Gujlafson bought a 

 piece of ground from the Indians in New 

 Jerfey, As foon as the agreement was drawn 

 up, and the Indians mould fign it, one of 



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