ften set the _Indians_ on to injure the _English_ on the Frontiers, out
of a barbarous inhuman Design; and often private Injuries done by some
of our ordinary or vile People (who esteem and use the _Indians_ as
Dogs) are repaid with publick Barbarity.

An Instance of their Resolutions for Satisfaction, we have in the Death
of _Major Wynne_, who was shot by an _Indian_, because one of our
Servants had killed one of their _great Men_; and upon the Trial of the
_Indian_, they pleaded that we were the Aggressors, and that they never
rest without Revenge and Reprisals; and that now they said we and they
were equal, having each lost a _great Man_: Wherefore to avoid more
Bloodshed, there was a Necessity to pardon the _Indian_.

They report that the _Northern Indians_ send out Bodies of young Fellows
yearly, who dare not return without a certain Number of Scalps or
Prisoners, in order to train them up, and qualify them for great and
fighting Men.

Now these, and such as are set on by others, do some Mischief (tho' but
very seldom) in the Frontier Plantations, tho' they be guarded with
Rangers; and these with such as think themselves injured are the
_Indians_ that make Wars, and such Disturbance in the _Northern_ and
_Southern_ Colonies: But the tributary _Indians_, of which there are but
four very small Nations in _Virginia_ on this Side the Mountains, keep
to the Bounds allowed them, and seldom do any Hurt, being sure to be
punished for Offences in a great Measure by our Laws, since we protect
and shelter them, by permitting them to live among us; tho' sometimes
they will pretend to claim their prior Right to all our Lands, as _Blunt
King of the Tuskaroodaus_ did, when he told _Colonel Spotswood_ that the
Country belonged to them before we _English_ came thither; so that he
thought they had a better Title than we, and ought not to be confined to
such narrow Limits for Hunting.

To retort this Argument, the Governor told him that _Mohomny_ took the
Ground from _them_ and gave it _us_, because _we_ did as he bid us, but
_they_ would not.

_Blunt_ answered, that _they_ could not tell what _Mohomny_ would have
them do; and asked how we knew.

The _Governor_ then told him that _Mohomny_ sent his _Son_ to us, who
lived a long time with us, and told us and taught us what we should do;
and then he went back again to his _Father_.

With this _King Blunt_ seemed satisfied and surprized; and after a
Pause, he said, he had talked