our people will

drink

it.

We acknowledge that our father

very much in the right to tell us that our Indian corn, but one great cause of is

we squander away is that many of

it

our people are obliged to hire land of the Christians at a very dear rate, and to give half the corn for rent, and the other half they are tempted by rum to

sell,

and so the corn goes, and the

poor women and children are left to shift as well as they can." And he might have added, that the land which they called their own was not unfrequently mortgaged to those who had furnished

them corn,

after

defrauding

them of

that

which they had

produced, and the mortgages very promptly foreclosed.

With

out this addition, however, Governor Burnet felt the force of the argument of this aboriginal prohibitionist, and took the

" looked point from his rebuke by remarking, in reply, that they " " " " better clothed than the other Indians, and were better

who do not live among the Christians," and that therefore they

would do well " to stay among them."

No promise did he give, he and appreciated however, ^would enforce the divine " Lead us not into command, temptation," by preventing the and the of rum sale consequent plunder by which the Christian that

name was

reproached.

Commanding them to

distribute their

presents equally between those living above Albany and those he dismissed them. living below Albany, The New England provinces maintained war with the east ern Indians for some years after peace had been established with