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obstacle or barrier we shall remove it with all ease, 

 but the bystanders must take care lest the splinters 

 should scar their faces. 



We shall then proceed to Detroit where your 

 father is whom we consider as a Hog put to fatten 

 in a penn, we shall enclose him in his penn, till he 

 be fat, & then we will throw him into the river 

 We shall draw a reinforcement from the Falls on 

 the Ohio & from thence & the Illinois send six hun- 

 dred men to Chicagou 



To this the Indians replied You that are so 

 brave, what need have you to be reinforced, go to 

 Detroit, you that can put out our fires & so easyly 

 remove our barriers. This we say to you, take 

 care that in attempting to extinguish our fires you 

 do not burn yourselves, & that in breaking down 

 our barriers you do not run splinters into your 

 hands. You may also expect that we shall not 

 suffer a single Frenchman to accompany you to 

 Detroit. 



End of the Conference. 



APPENDIX D TO CHAPTER VIII 



(From Canadian Archives. Haldimand MSS., Series B, 



Vol. 122, p. 351.) 

 (Copy.) 



DEAR SIR, UpPER ST> DusKI ' J une 9> I 779- 



After much running about, some presents to 

 Chiefs, we had collected at the Mingo Town near 

 200 Savages chiefly Shawanese When lo! a run- 

 ner arrived with accounts of the Shawanese towns 



