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at the colony, and that they were at liberty to 
drink it up at once, or hulLand it, juft as they 
thought propv^r. 
This flender ftore, which It was neccflary 
for me to keep for extraordinary occafions, 
I could not think of confurning at once, by 
giving a bumper to each of my guefts. I treat- 
ed, therefore, only the chief, and four aged 
Kaminouquas, whom I diftinguilhed in the 
troop, intending to recompenfe the others by 
a prefent of fome toys ; and upon this occafion 
I witnefied an adtion, as I have elfev/here men- 
tioned, that filled me with admiration and 
efteem. 
The chief, unwilling to enjoy alone a plea- 
fure not fhared by his companions, his friends, 
and brothers, kept in his mouth the liquor 
he might have fw alio wed, and, approaching 
his ii- s to theirs, thus diftriluted it, one a,fter 
another, among all his people, referving for 
himftlf nothing but the feeling and the fla- 
vour. The four old men followed his ex- 
ample ; and, by this finguiar mode of fharing 
it, every one partook of the gift. 
Men of delicacy, people of fafliion, it Is to 
you this poblc lefTon is addrelTed ! It will ex- 
cite, 
