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Michigan Jackson Mi.
There was but little money to spend among our settlers after they had paid for their lands, bought their teams and stock, built their log houses and made such improvements as the scant time left after this was accomplished would allow. It was here that great benefit was derived from our red brethren. Notwithstanding the fact that the
white man was dispossessing them of their houses, their inheritance and their country, and that they were being exterminated by their Christian brethren, they in the innocence of their hearts acted toward the suffering white settlers the part of the good Samaritan. The supplies" of venison, game, maple sugar, berries and fish furnished by " Poor Lo " were of the last importance to our pioneers during the long winter and the first of spring. No more welcome sight was looked for than to see a string of Indians approaching single file with a lot of venison or wild turkeys hanging across their ponies, for this not only insured a replenishment of the stock of provisions, but also that it was to be done on very favorable terms, for of all classes of men the Indian has the least and poorest ideas of values, and our sharp, shrewd first settlers from New York and New England were not very scrupulous in their dealings with those upon whose good will they were so dependent.
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