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consented. They then said, some of their 

 people were sick, and they asked permission to 

 land them, and put them under the shade of 

 the tree. The ice then came, and they could 

 not go away ; they then begged a piece of land 

 to build wigwams for the winter : we granted 

 it. They then asked for some corn, to keep 

 them from starving: we kindly furnished it. 

 They promised to go away when the ice was 

 gone ; when this happened, we told them they 

 must now go away with their big canoe ; but 

 they pointed to their big guns around their 

 wigwams, and said they would stay there ; and 

 we could not make them go away. Afterwards 

 more came. They brought spirituous and in- 

 toxicating liquors, of which the Indians became 

 very fond. They persuaded us to sell them 

 some land. Finally they drove us back from 

 time to time into the wilderness, far from the 

 water, the fish, and the oysters. They have 

 destroyed our game, our people are wasted 

 away, and we live miserable and wretched, 

 while you are enjoying our fine and beautiful 

 country. This makes me sorry, brother, and I 

 cannot help it.' 



It would be a long and a heart-rending tale, 

 to recount the various acts of cruelty, rapacity, 

 and injustice, with which they have been gen- 



