Perhaps they are much deteriorated in this respect by their intercourse with Europeans.

Their existence at present hangs upon the supplies of ammunition and clothing they receive from the traders, and they deeply feel their dependent{18} situation.

But their character has been still more debased by the passion for spirituous liquors, so assiduously fostered among them.

To obtain the noxious beverage, they descend to the most humiliating entreaties, and assume an abjectness of behaviour which does not seem natural to them, and of which not a vestige is to be seen in their intercourse with each other.
Their character has sunk among the neighbouring nations.

They are no longer the warriors who drove before them the inhabitants of the Saskatchawan, and Missinippi.