128 Little need be added about the activity of licensed traders in this region before the departure of the Sacs and Foxes in the autumn of 1845.

The change of residence to the neigh- borhood of Fort Des Moines did not in the least abate the Indians excessive fondness for liquor nor limit their means of procuring it : unprincipled whites supplied them with whiskey wherever they went.

The Indians still wasted their money.

Instead of buying necessaries, they quickly spent their income on the trash of traders and the whiskey and horses of others.

Furthermore, a large part of the pro- visions and goods furnished by the government they "ex- changed for whiskey as soon as they get possession of them, and always at such rates as the cupidity of the whiskey sellers choose to dictate.