228 BOUQUET IN THE INDIAN COUNTRY. [1764, Nov. 



for Indian affairs, who will settle with you the arti- 

 cles of peace, and determine every thing in relation 

 to trade. Two things, however, I shall insist on. 

 And, first, you are to give hostages, as security 

 that you will preserve good faith, and send, with- 

 out delay, a deputation of your chiefs to Sir Wil- 

 liam Johnson. In the next place, these chiefs are 

 to be fully empowered to treat in behalf of your 

 nation ; and you will bind yourselves to adhere 

 strictly to every thing they shall agree upon in your 

 behalf." 



These demands were readily complied with. 

 Hostages were given, and chiefs appointed for 

 the embassy ; and now, for the first time. Bou- 

 quet, to the great relief of the Indians, — for they 

 doubted his intentions, — extended to them the 

 hand of friendship, which he had so long with- 

 held. A prominent chief of the Delawares, too 

 proud to sue for peace, had refused to attend the 

 council ; on which Bouquet ordered him to be 

 deposed, and a successor, of a less obdurate spirit, 

 installed in his place. The Shawanoes were the 

 last of the tribes admitted to a hearing ; and 

 the demeanor of their orator clearly evinced the 

 haughty reluctance with which he stooped to 

 ask peace of his mortal enemies. 



" When you came among us," such were his con- 

 cluding words, " you came with a hatchet raised to 

 strike us. We now take it from your hand, and 

 throw it up to the Great Spirit, that he may do 

 with it what shall seem good in his sight. We 

 hope that you, who are warriors, will take hold of 



