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your report showing clearly that the Indian has carried 

 the enterprising spirit conne6led with the name into 

 timber trade along with the name. 



Drunkenness is natural in an Indian. Nature on the 

 other hand guards him against the evil with the un- 

 written law, Thou shalt grow thine own cassava before 

 drinking thy grog. We step in and interfere with this 

 arrangement between the Indian and his Creator by 

 making it easy for him to get liquor without its atten- 

 dant impediment of labour extended through time ; with 

 the consequent result of a drunken Indian for a few 

 years or davs and then no Indian at all. This crying 

 evil daily calls for some compound triple expansion 

 surface and otherwise condensing ordinance, to deal 

 with it, and the sooner you get under-way with the 

 constru6lion of this powerful engine the better, alike for 

 your own repute as a moral nation and your own 

 souls in the hereafter. I have heard you pray in your 

 Honourable Court for guidance in moral matters, I beg 

 of you therefore not to neglect the golden opportunity 

 before you in the Indians. The real " Raw Buck" as he is 

 called cnmmonlv, is gradually becoming scarcer and 

 scarcer; some say civilization and rum is killing him. I 

 hold he is dying by rum, civilization, natural death, and 

 absorption into other races by intermarriage ; possibly 

 the last has more to do with the Indian's demise than 

 ordinary people who don't come much in contafi with 

 Indians would be apt to think, 



I simply look upon the obliteration of the Indian as 

 inevitable, in short, a realization of Darwin's theory 

 of the survival of the fittest. At the same time I think it 

 would be well to preserve a few Indians by reservation, 



