DCHP-1 Online
Indian rum Fur Trade 
brandy, rum, whisky, or high wines (often diluted and sometimes spiced with pepper, Tabasco, tobacco, or weak acids) traded to the Indians.
See also: high wine Indian liquor
- 1768-82 (1904) . . . having a very small portion of rum, and no prospect of encreasing my stock; I was therefore obliged to dilute it so as to make it about one-fifth part weaker than usual, which made twenty gallons of very passable Indian rum.
- 1793 (1933) Mixed nine Gallons of Indian rum[,] it being customary for Bourgeois to wet the whistle of every Indian they meet on the way.
- 1835 (1944) We were induced to offer a blanket i gall: Ind. Rum & a head of tobacco per beaver. . . .
- 1944 "Indian rum" was rum diluted with water.
- 1768-82 (1904) . . . having a very small portion of rum, and no prospect of encreasing my stock; I was therefore obliged to dilute it so as to make it about one-fifth part weaker than usual, which made twenty gallons of very passable Indian rum.