[54] Letter from Jas. Hackett, Esq., Civil Commissioner, to Sir B. D’Urban. Papers, Abor. Tribes, 1834, pp. 194, 198.
[55] Papers, Abor. Tribes, pp. 183, 193.
[56] Papers, p. 182.
[57] Papers, Abor. Tribes, pp. 181, 182.
[58] Mr. Mayhew in his journal, writes, that the Indians told him, that they could not observe the benefit of Christianity, because the English cheated them of their lands and goods; and that the use of books made them more cunning in cheating. In his Indian itineraries, he desired of Ninicroft, sachem of the Narragansets, leave to preach to his people. Ninicroft bid him go and make the English good first, and desired Mr. Mayhew not to hinder him in his concerns. Some Indians at Albany being asked to go into a meeting-house, declined, saying, “the English went into those places to study how to cheat poor Indians in the price of beaver, for they had often observed that when they came back from those places they offered less money than before they went in.”
[59] Spirituous liquors.
[60] Winterbottom’s America.
[61] Stuart’s Three Years in North America, ii. 177.
[62] Stuart, ii. 173.
[63] See Adair’s History of the American Indians.