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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Visit to Oneida and Other Tribes of Indians

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and also shewing them
that by Industry and At-
tention to their Business,
they would be preserved from
the frequent Temptations,
which a more indolant and
wandering Life would expose
them to, with regard to this
Bane of their Happiness,
Strong Liquor. Some of these
people appear to be indus-
trious, and in general, their
Dress and manner of Life,
approaches nearer to that
of the white people, than
any of the other Tribes where
we have been; and notwithstan