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Red Cedar's proposition was too advantageous for the Pirates to hesitate about accepting it. This was the reason: --
For some years past a man had appeared on the prairies, at the head of fifty or sixty determined companions, and had waged such a rude war on the adventurers or pirates, that it had become almost impossible to carry on their old trade with impunity.