He desired, he told me, to make some trade arrangements for disposing of the peltries which he and his people obtained; his object, at the same time, being to keep them away from the white men, for fear of the "fire water."  This subject was continually on his mind.  He had seen it prove the destruction of so many of his countrymen, that he dreaded its introduction among his own tribe, who had hitherto been kept free from it.  However, as my uncles and Mr Claxton were men who never touched liquor, he was not afraid of dealing with them.