At my first setting out among them, a number of traders...

journeyed through our various nations in different companies and were generally men of worth; of course they would have a living price for their goods, which they carried on horseback to the remote Indian countries at very great expences....

[The Indians] were kept under proper restraint, were easy in their minds and peaceable on account of the plain, honest lessons daily inculcated on them...

but according to the present unwise plan, two and even three Arablike peddlars sculk about in one of those villages...

who are generally the dregs and offscourings of our climes...