64 HISTORY OF 



In a word: we find the christians much more 

 depraved in their morals than we are — and we judge 

 from their doctrine by the badness of their hves. 



Shortly after Governor Gookin's visit to the Indians^ 

 he sent two messengers, Col. John French and Henry Wor-^ 

 ley, to them. After a friendly interview^ they returned ta 

 Philadelphia, and laid before the board of coimcil, in 

 session, June 16, 1710, their report. 



'^Jlt Conestogo, June 8, 1710. 



Present : — John French, Hemy Worley, Iwaagenst?. 

 Terrutanaren and Teonnotein, chiefs of the Tuscaroroes,. 

 Civility, the Senegues kings, and foiu chiefs of the na-- 

 tions with Opessa, the Shawanois king. 



The Indians were told that according to their request^ 

 we were come from the Governor and Government, to 

 hear what prosposals they had to make anent a peace,, 

 according to the purport of their embassy from their own 

 people. 



They signified to us by a belt of wampum^ which was 

 sent them from their old wom.en, that those implored 

 their friendship of christians and Indians of this govern- 

 ment, that without danger or trouble they might fetch 

 wood and water. 



*" Wamfom or wampum, says Loskeil, is an Iroquois word 

 meaning a muscle. A number of these muscles strung to- 

 gether is called a string of wampum, which when a fathom, 

 six feet long, is termed a fathom or belt of wampum, 

 but the word string is commonly used, whether it be long or 

 short. Before the Europeans came to North America, the In- 

 dians used to make their strings of wampum chiefly of small 

 pieces of wood of equal size, stained either black or white. — 

 Few were made of muscles, which were esteemed very valua- 

 ble and difficult to make ; for not having proper tools, they 

 spent much time in finishing them, and yet their work had a 

 clumsy appearance. But the Europeans soon contrived to 



