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the swiftest and surest tyes that engage and unite us in Society —
{Doctor} M— {New York}

An Indian woman who had passed a very dangerous rapid in a canoe,
was found drunk lying in the bottom of it, having drank a whole
bottle of Rum ~ being asked how she could drink so much, she
answerd as well as she could find words, that surely it was too much
but that had never expected to escape with her life, & 'twould have
been pity the rum should have been lost. —

Old Sema (Tobacco) a Peaukashaa chief upward of 60 years of
age being asked some questions relative to the behaviour of the
Indian woman, said that they were not easyly to be come at
when sober, but that when they had got a little Rum
they might be laid open like a Book —