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beneficial Trade may be extended through 
the Hokio into the Miffiffippi and its branches 
among the numerous nations that inhabit their 
banks. It were to be wiihed, that the En- 
glifh government in thefe parts had been more 
diligent in fearching and furveying the heads 
of their own rivers and the fources of the 
others that run weftwards from the backs of 
their refective provinces. Yet enough is al- 
ready known to juftify the furmifes of Mr. 
de la Sale, who in his Journal addreffed to 
the Count de Frontenac expreffes his fears, left 
the Englifh, from their fettlements, fhonld 
poffefs themfelves of the trade on the Miff iff - 
ippi. I quartered in a trader’s cabbin, and a- 
bout midnight the Indian came and called up 
him and his fquaw, who lay in a separate part 
where the goods were depofited, whether to- 
gether or no I did not ask. She fold the 
Indian rum, with which being quickly in- 
toxicated, men and women began firft to fing 
and then dance round the fire ; then the wo- 
men would run out to other cabbins and foon 
return, leaving the men finging and dancing 
the war dance, which continued all the next 
day. An Englifhman when very drunk will 
fall faft afleep for the moft part, but an In- 
dian, when merry, falls to dancing, running, 
and fhouting, which violent action probably 
may difperfe the fumes of the liquor, that 
had he fat ftill or remained quiet, might have 
made 
