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I faw a young Indian in the Nation, who when 
prefent, and beholding the fcenes of mad in- 
temperance and folly afted by the white men in 
the town, clapped his hand to his bread, and 
with a fmile, looked aloft as if ftruck with 
aftonifhment, and wrapt in love and adoration to 
the Deity ; as who fhould fay, “ O thou Great 
and Good Spirit i we are indeed fenfible of thy 
benignity and favour to us red men, in denying 
us the underftanding of white men. We did not 
know before they came amongft us that mankind 
could become fo bafe, and fall fo below the dig- 
nity of their nature. Defend us from their man- 
ners, laws and power.” 
The Mufcogulges, with their confederates, the 
Chacftaws, Chicafaws, and perhaps the Cherokees, 
eminently deferve the encomium of all nations, 
for their wifdom and virtue in relifting and even 
repelling the greateft, and even the common 
enemy of mankind, at leaft of moft of the Euro- 
pean nations, I mean fpirituous liquors. 
The firft and moft cogent article in all their 
treaties with the white people, is, that there fhall 
not be any kind of fpirituous liquors fold or 
brought into their towns ; and the traders are 
allowed but two kegs (five gallons each) which 
is fuppofed to be fufficient for a company, to lerve 
them on the road ; and if any of this remains on 
their approaching the towns, they muft fpill it on 
the ground or fecrete it on the road, for it muft 
not come into the town. 
On my journey from Mobile to the Nation, juft 
after we had pafted the junction of the Penfacola 
road with our path, two young traders overtook 
11s on their way to the Nation. We inquired 
what 
