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eame hei*6; and I need not tell you that this is not the first day that we have given to 

 the poor in this city. 



"My friends, if we were rich, like many white men in this country, the poor people 

 we see around the streets in this cold weather, with their little children barefooted and 

 begginf?, would soon get enough to eat, and clothes to keep them warm. 



' ' My friends, it has made us unhappy to see the poor people begging for something to 

 eat since we came to this country. In our country we are all poor, but the poor all have 

 enough to eat, and clothes to keep them warm. We have seen your poor-houses, and 

 been in them, and we think them very good; but we think there should be more of them, 

 and that the rich men should pay for them. 



' ' My friends, we admit that before we left home we all were fond of fire-water, but in 

 this country we have not drunk it. Your words are good, and we know it is a great sin 

 to drink it. Your words to us on that subject can do but little good, for we are but a 

 few; but if you can tell them to the white people, who make the fire-water, and bring it 

 into our country to sell, and can tell them also to the thousands whom we see drunk 

 with it in this country, then we think you may do a great deal of good; and we believe 

 the Great Spirit will reward you for it. 



"My friends, it makes us unhappy, in a country where there is so much wealth, to 

 see so many poor and hungry, and so many as we see drunk. "We know you are good 

 people and kind to the poor, and we give you our hands at parting, praying that the 

 Great Spirit will assist you in taking care of the poor and making people sober. 



"My friends, I have no more to say." 



Temperance medals were then given to each of the Indians, and the deputation took 

 leave. 



A council was held that evening in the Indians' apartments, and several pipes smoked, 

 during which time the conversation ran upon numerous topics, the first of which was 

 the interesting meeting they had held that day, and on several former occasions, with 

 the Friends, and which good people they were about to leave, and they seemed fearful 

 they should meet none others in their travels. They were passing their comments upon 

 the vast numbers which Daniel and Bohaslieela had told them there actually were of poor 

 people shut up in the poor-houses, besides those in the streets, and underground in the 

 coal-pits; and concluded that the numerous clergymen they had to preach to them, and 

 to keep them honest and sober, were not too many, but they thought they even ought 

 to have more, and should at least keep all they had at home, instead of sending them to 

 preach to the Indians. Jim was busy poring over his note-book, and getting Daniel to 

 put down in round numbers the amount of poor in the poor-houses and in the streets, 

 which they had found in some newspaper. And he was anxious to have down without 

 any mistake the large sum of money they had presented to the hospitals, so that when 

 they got home they could tell of the charity they had done in England; and if ever they 

 got so poor as to have to beg, they would have a good paper to beg with. The sum, in 

 American currency (as they know less of pounds, shillings, and pence) amounted to the 

 respectable one of three hundred and seventy dollars. 



INDIANS SEE A FOX HUNT. 



On my return from London I had joined the Indians at Leeds, where they had been 

 exhibiting for some days, and found them just ready to start for York. I was their com- 

 panion by the railway, therefore, to that ancient and venerable city ; and made a note 

 or two on an occurrence of an amusing nature which happened on the way. When we 

 were within a few miles of the town the Indians were .suddenly excited and startled by 

 the appearance of a party of fox-hunters, forty or fifty in number, following their pack 

 in full cry, having just crossed the track ahead of the train. 



This was a subject entirely new to them and unthought of by the Indians; and, 

 knowing that English soldiers all wore red coats, they were alarmed, their first imprea- 



