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warded to Fort-Wayne, where they were imme-diately distributed, as a present from the societyof Friends, and thankfully received by theIndians. A letter was received in the summer of 1803,from the agent for Indian affairs at Fort-Wayne,in which he says:— Since there have been no spirituous liquorsin the Indian country, they appear very indus-trious, and are fond of raising stock. He alsoexpressed, as his opinion, that the suppressionof spirituous liquors in that country is the mostbeneficial thing which has ever been done forthem by the United States; that there had notbeen one Indian killed in that neighbourhood fora year; and that in no preceding year, since thetreaty of Greenville, had there been less thanten, and in some years, as many as thirty, killed.The agent further added, that the Indiansappeared to be very desirous of procuring forthemselves the necessaries of life, in our way;but say they do not know how to begin. Someof their old men say, The white people wantfor nothing. We wish them to shew us howto provide the many good things we see amongstthem. If it is their wish to instruct us in theirway of living, as they tell us it is, we wish