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Illustrative note, doubtless meant to have accompanied the foregoing. Extract from Robert Proud's history of Pennsylvania, vol:1st, page -194,195,196. 1681- "In one of these ships sailed William Markham, a relation of the proprietary; whom he had appointed his deputy governor, and joined with him certain commissioners, to confer with the Indians, or aborigines, of the country, respecting their lands; and to confirm them with a league of peace. These commissioners he enjoined to treat them with all possible candour, justice and humanity. to cultivate a right understanding with these natives, by a kind, gentle and just treatment and usage, was an affair of great importance to the future happiness and prosperity of the province; which good policy alone, even from views of temporal interest, in such a case, would point out; yet notwithstanding this the unhappy effects of a contrary conduct, on a neglect in this particular, had been frequently and long experienced, in some other provinces, to their great detriment and ruinous consequences. But William Penn appears to have acted from higher, and more disinterested motives, in reference to these people, than from those of mere temporal advantage only; which, it is manifest, he never received from the province, in any respect whatever, during a life of near thirty-seven years' continuance after this time; but lost much by it. His ideas were more exalted, than to be confined within the narrow view of a temporary interest alone, and his conduct respecting these poor, ignorant and savage people, declared his regard for universal justice, and the natural rights of mankind; tending to impress in their minds, as was his concern for all others, a proper sense of eternal justice, and the happy effects of friendship, love and peace; than which nothing can have a stranger influence on the rational and considerate mind, to keep it within the due bounds of justice and truth. The first specimen, that I find, of his manner of treating these people, appears in the following letter, which he sent them.