chace on horseback – but they consider the operation of searching for them in the bowels of the earth to satisfy the avarice of the whites not only troublesome, but very degrading[.] "White people said they, do not know how to live – they leave their homes in small parties, they risk their lives on the great waters, and among strange nations, who will take them for enemies[.] What is the use of Beaver? [D]o they make Gunpowder of them? Do they preserve them from sickness? Do they serve them beyond the Grave?" I remarked that the Northern Nations were very industrious and great friends to the White people[.] "We are no slaves, rejoined the Chief[.] Our fathers were not slaves[.] In my young days there were no white men – and we knew no wants[.] We were succesful in war, our arrows were pointed with flint[.] Our lances with stone and their wounds were mortal. Our villages rejoiced when the men returned from war, for of the scalps of our enemies they brought many[.] The white people came[.] They brought with them some good[.] But they brought the small

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