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may enjoy the blessings of this general peace, now 

 so happily settled between your fathers the English 

 and you, and all your younger brethren to the sun 

 setting. 



" Children, by this belt I gather up all the bones 

 of your deceased friends, and bury them deep in 

 the ground, that the buds and sweet flowers of the 

 earth may grow over them, that we may not see 

 them any more. 



" Children, with this belt I take the hatchet out 

 of your hands, and pluck up a large tree, and bury 

 it deep, so that it may never be found any more; 

 and I plant the tree of peace, which all our chil- 

 dren may sit under, and smoke in peace with their 

 fathers. 



" Children, we have made a road from the sun 

 rising to the sunsetting. I desire that you will 

 preserve that road good and pleasant to travel 

 upon, that we may all share the blessings of this 

 happy union." 



On the following day, Pontiac spoke in behalf 

 of the several nations assembled at the council. 



" Father, we have all smoked out of this pipe of 

 peace. It is your children's pipe ; and as the war 

 is all over, and the Great Spirit and Giver of Light, 

 who has made the earth and every thing therein, 

 has brought us all together this day for our mutual 

 good, I declare to all nations that I have settled 

 my peace with you before I came here, and now 

 deliver my pipe to be sent to Sir WiUiam Johnson, 

 that he may know I have made peace, and taken 

 the King of England for my father, in presence of 



