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The company was impressed with some ideas of the danger from Carolina, and when Perier came over as governor in 1727, he was given special instructions regarding the trade of the Mobile district.
But the Company of the Indies, holding to its program of economy, made no arrangements to furnish better goods at attractive prices.
To the directors the problem appeared a matter of intrigue or diplomacy.
Perier attempted to understand the problem by sending agents to inquire among the Indians.
These agents were to ascertain the difference between English and French goods, and the prices charged the Indians.
They were to conciliate the unfriendly savages, and, wherever possible, to incite the natives to pillage the traders from Carolina.
They were to promise fine presents to the loyal red men, as well as an abundant supply of trading goods at better prices than the opposition was offering.
Perier's intrigues gained some successes.
The savages divided into two factions ; ;
one was British and the other, French.
So hostile did these factions become that, among the Choctaws, civil war broke out.

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