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shall begin by setting the example, and will take some young Indians to have them instructed.”
In another letter to the same person, dated November 13, 1681, he says: “Amidst all the plans presented to me to attract the Indians among us and to accustom them to our manners, that from which most success may be anticipated, without fearing the inconveniences common to all the others, is to establish Villages of those people in our midst.”
That the same policy was in vogue as late as 1704 is shown by the fact that at this time the Abnaki were taken under French protection and placed, as the records say, “In the center of the colony.”
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