. The annals of the families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler, who settled in York County, respectively, in 1729, 1732, 1732, and 1751 : with biographical and historical sketches, and memorabilia of contemporaneous local events. that abused them. Since the Europeans came into these parts, they havegrown great lovers of strong liquors, rum especially ; and for it is exchanged therichest of their skins and furs, If they are heated with liquors, they are restlesstill they have enough to sleep ; that is their cry some more, and I will go tosleep ; but when drunk one of the most wretch
. The annals of the families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler, who settled in York County, respectively, in 1729, 1732, 1732, and 1751 : with biographical and historical sketches, and memorabilia of contemporaneous local events. that abused them. Since the Europeans came into these parts, they havegrown great lovers of strong liquors, rum especially ; and for it is exchanged therichest of their skins and furs, If they are heated with liquors, they are restlesstill they have enough to sleep ; that is their cry some more, and I will go tosleep ; but when drunk one of the most wretched spectacles in the world. The THE ABORIGINES. 259 worst is that they are the worse for the Christians ; who have propagated theirvices and yielded them tradition for ill and not for good things. It were miserableindeed for us to fall under the just censure of the poor Indian conscience, while wemake profession of things so far transcending. Their government was by kings, which they called sachems, and thoseby succession always of the mothers side. For instance the children ofhim who is now king will not succeed him, but his brother by his mother, or theson of his sister, and after them the children of her daughter, but no woman in-. NDIAN VIIXAGE. (Old print.) herits. Every king had his council, consisting of all the old and wise men of hisnation. War, peace, selling of land, or traffic, were only undertaken after advis-ing with them, and also with the young men. The king sat in the middle of ahalf-moon, and had his council of the old and wise men on each hand ; behindthem, or at a little distance, sat the younger fry in the same figure. Having con-sulted and resolved their business, the king ordered one of them to speak to me ;he stood up, came to me, and in the name of the king saluted me ; then took meby the hand, and told me he was ordered by the king to speak to me, and thatnow it was not he, but the king, that spoke, because what he should say was thekings mind. He firs
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