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the employ of the government, and out with the officer who 
relates this anecdote, but declining to go upon a late expe- 
dition, he procured for the officer the services of John Bush- 
man, another Deleware. 
The officer told Bushman to inform his corps of hunters 
and guides that they would be paid one dollar and a half a 
day and one ration. Shortly after this, it was necessary to 
have an subeaipbitiees to a wild tribe that was met, and Bush- 
man acted, — 
After the talk he said to the officer, “ You not tell me what 
you give me.” The officer insisted that he had told him 
one dollar and a half per day. He replied “ Black Beaver he 
say two dollar half one day.” The officer told him that he 
made his own bargains, and the government hed no money to 
squander, but that on condition of his acting as interpreter 
he would inerease his pay half a dollar. 
On the return of the expedition, and after he was paid, the 
officer asked him, “ John, will you go again?” “No,” was his 
reply, “dat government he not got no money.” It turned out 
to be a plan of Black Beaver to share half of the two dollars 
and a half, but did not succeed. 
They are brave to a fault, never turning their backs upon’ 
the foe. The following anecdote, related of this same Cap- 
tain Black Beaver, is an illustration: 
He accompanied a government diti years since, 
into the Camanche country, and wii out upon a scout one 
day, accompanied by a white man attached to the train, they 
