Colden’s Hist. of the Five Nations, vol. i. p. 70.
[27] Raynal.
[28] Colden, i. 81.
[29] Colden, i. 441.
[30] Colden’s Hist. of “The Five Nations,” i. 195.
[31] The natives of this coast had some years before been carried off in considerable numbers by a British kidnapper, one Captain Hunt, who sold them in the Mediterranean to the Spaniards as Moors of Barbary. The indignation of the Indians on the discovery of this base transaction and their warlike character, put a stop to this trade, which might otherwise have become as regular a department of commerce as the African slave-trade; but it naturally threw the most formidable obstacles in the way of settling colonies here, and brought all the miseries of mutual outrage and revenge on both settlers and natives.—Douglass’s Summary of the First Planting of North America, vol. i. p. 364.
[32] Purchases were, indeed, made by others; but it was seize first, and bargain afterwards, when the soil was already defended by muskets, and the only question with the natives was, “Shall we take a trifle for our lands, or be knocked on the head for them?”
[33] Douglass’ Summary, i. 556–65.
[34] Ibid. i. 321.
[35] Douglass’ Summary, i. 199.