Tom' s Challenge #2

This one is in the same vein, so we are following a bit of thread here and not too much more difficult than the last one. Here are the questions three:

1. Who is the author
2. Of whom (what people) is he speaking
3. what year was this written (closest wins)

(all spellings and grammar are shown exactly as in the original quote)

“During our short stay in this Sound I have observed that this Second Visit of ours hath not mended the morals of the Natives of either sex, the women of this Country I always looked upon to be more chaste than the generality of Indian Women, whatever favours a few of them might have granted to the Crew of the (ship’s name) it was generally done in a private manner and without the men seeming to intrest themselves in it, but now we find the men are the chief promoters of this vice and for a spikenail or any other thing they value will oblige (d) their Wives and Daughters to prostitute themselves whether they will or no and that not with the privacy decency seems to require, such are the consequences of commerce with the Europeans and what is still more our Shame civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to the vice and interduce among them wants and perhaps diseases which they never before knew and which serve only to disturb that happy tranquility they and their fore Fathers had injoyed. If any one denies the truth of this assertion let him tell me what the Natives of the whole extent of America have gained by the commerce they have had with Europeans.”

Answer by using the e-mail found in my profile (click on the word “more” at the end of my little description below the picture of Cindra and I at the top right of the page).

Good luck!