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The secretary then proceeded to treat with them about 

 the road they were to take, ^nd it was agreed that the chief 

 of the Nanticokes, a sensible man, who was ihen present, 

 should conduct them from Conestogoe to their town, on 

 Wye river, that they should be furnished with provi- 

 sions for their journey sufficient to carry them among the 

 inhabitants, after which they were directed, as the 

 Governor had before ordered, that they should produce 

 his passport to the gentlemen of the country where they 

 travelled, by whom they would be provided for ; and the 

 Nanticoke chief Avas further desired, upon their leaving 

 the Nanticoke towns^ to direct them to some of the chief 

 gentlemen and officers of those posts who would un- 

 doubtedly take care of them on sight of these passports, 

 and thereby laiowing their business, have them trans- 

 ported over the bay of Annapolis. Being further asked 

 how they would get an interpreter to Virginia where 

 the Indians know nothing of their language, and some 

 proposals being made to furnish them, they answered, 

 there would be no occasion for any care of that kind, for 

 they very well knew the Governor of Virginia had an 

 interpreter of their language always with him. 



Provisions being then ordered for their journey, as also 

 at their desire, some for those of their company, who 

 witli their women and children were to return directly 

 home by water up the river Susquehanna, viz: a bag of 

 biscuit, some pieces of bacon and dried venison ; these 

 matters were concluded with great expressions of 

 thankfulness for the Governor's great care of them 

 and their families, which kindness- they said they never 

 should forget. 



The discourse being continued, they were told it was • 

 now very near, viz: within one moon of thirty-seven 

 years since a great man of England, Governor of Viir- 



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