158 BISTORT or 



At Coiiestoga, m council, July 7th. — Present: Gov. 

 Keith, Richard Plill, Caleb Piisey, Jonathan Dickinson, 

 Col. John French, James Logan, Secretary, with divers 

 other gentlemen. Present, also : The chiefs or deputies 

 sent by the Five Nations to treat with the Government, 

 viz : Sinnekaes nation, Ghesaont, Awennool, Onondagoes 

 nation, Tannawree, Skeetowas, Gayoogoes nation, 

 Sahoode, Tchehuque. 



Smith, the Ganawese Indian interpreter of the Mingo 

 language to the Delawares ; John Cartledge and James 

 Le Tort, uiterpreter of the Delaware into English. 



Ghesaont, in the name and on the behalf of all the 

 Five Nations, delivered himself in speakmg to the 

 Governor, as follows : 



They were glad to sec the Governor and his comicil 

 at this place, for they had heard much of the Governor 

 in their towns before they came from home, and now 

 they find him to Le what they had then heard of him, 

 viz : their friend and brother, and the same as if William 

 Penn were still amongst them. They assure the Go- 

 vernor and council that they had not forgot William 

 Perm's treaties with them, and that his advice to them 

 was still fresh in their memories. 



Though they cannot write, yet they retain every thmg 

 said in their councils with all the nations they treat 

 with, and preserve it as carefully in their memories 

 as if it was committed in our method to writing. 



They complain that our traders carrying goods and 

 liquors up the Susqueliamia nver, sometimes meet with 

 their young men out to war, and treat them unliindly; 

 not only refusing to give them a dram of their liquor, 

 but use them with ill language,and call them dogs, &c. 



They take this unkindly, because dogs have no sense 

 or understanding; whereas they are men, and think that 



