I Am Speaking Of Those Nations With Which I Am
Best Acquainted, A Few Hundreds Of The Worst Kind Mixed With Whites,
Worse Than Themselves, Are Now Hired By Great Britain, To Perpetuate
Those Dreadful Incursions.
In my youth I traded with the - - , under
the conduct of my uncle, and always traded justly and equitably;
some of them remember it to this day.
Happily their village is far
removed from the dangerous neighbourhood of the whites; I sent a man
last spring to it, who understands the woods extremely well, and who
speaks their language; he is just returned, after several weeks
absence, and has brought me, as I had flattered myself, a string of
thirty purple wampum, as a token that their honest chief will spare
us half of his wigwam until we have time to erect one. He has sent
me word that they have land in plenty, of which they are not so
covetous as the whites; that we may plant for ourselves, and that in
the meantime he will procure for us some corn and some meat; that
fish is plenty in the waters of - -, and that the village to which he
had laid open my proposals, have no objection to our becoming
dwellers with them. I have not yet communicated these glad tidings
to my wife, nor do I know how to do it; I tremble lest she should
refuse to follow me; lest the sudden idea of this removal rushing on
her mind, might be too powerful.
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