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if fairly divided, give three dollars to each person, These facts show how slender are the ties of interest, depending upon the receipt of their annuities, which connect the Indians to us. In the consideration therefore of any act either national or Individual the annuities would not be taken into their estimate. Their Security or hazard would not furnish motives sufficiently powerful to influence the decision of one man in the station The greatest injuries which our Citizens have to apprehend from the Indians are the stealing of their horses and the destruction of their cattle and provisions. It is in this way, that we have been and shall be brought into contact with them. These aggressions exasperate our people. They commit injuries in their [farm?] and the minds of both are prepared for hostilities. When an Indian leaves our settlements, for it is then the injury is done. if a favourable opportunity occur of stealing a horse and taking him off with a quantity of provisions, the temptation is strong and whether he will yield to it is a matter of Calculation. The boundless forest is before him, in every past of which he is at home when it is difficult to pursue and almost impossible to overtake him. Even if his trail can be followed any distance, which is very doubtful, he uniformly upon these expeditions continues upon his horse, till he sides him down, long before which the most preserving and experience woodsman losses all traces of his route and abandons the pursuit in