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least for the term of six months before that time. -- And our friends Henry Simmons, Joel Swayne, and Hilladay Jack- -son are hereby authorised, and desired to pay the above Premiums, agreeably to what is herein before expressed. -- We then were favoured seriouly to expostulate with them on various subjects retative to their Moral, and Civil Con- -duct, particularly there excessive use of Strong drink, divers instances of which we had been Eye witnesses of, since among them, several of their Wo- -men had having been thus disguised; some of them appeared Solid, and heard us with attention, but as far as I have ob- -served since among them, little or no Shame covers an Indian for getting drunk. -- They informed us they would withdraw a little while into ano- -ther Room, and confer on our propos- -als, which doing, in about an hour they returned, and made us an answer in substance as follows,