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CAPTAIN An English captain in the year
“INDIAN, WHO IS YOUR CAPTAIN?” An English captain, in the year 1759, who was beating up for recruits in the neighbourhood of Bethlehem, met one day a Moravian Indian, and asked him whether ‘he had a mind to be a soldier.’
— from Anecdotes of the American Indians Illustrating their Eccentricities of Character by Alexander Vietts Blake

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