158 HISTOKY 01? 



At Conestoga, m council, July 7th. — Present: Gb^/ 

 Keith, Richard Hill, Caleb Pu^ey, Jonathan Dickinso% 

 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, Onondago^ 

 nation, Tannawree, Skeetowas, Gayoogoes natioii^, 

 Salioode, Tchehuque. 



Smith, the Ganav/ese Indian interpreter of the Mingo 

 language to the Delawares; John Cartledge and James 

 Le Tort, interpreter of the Delaware into English. 



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

 Five Nations, delivered himself in speaking to the 

 Governor, as follows : 



They were glad to see 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 be what they had then heard of him, 

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

 Penn were still amongst them. They assure tiie Go- 

 vernor and council that they had not forgot William 

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

 was still fresh in their memories. 



Though they camiot write, yet they retain every thing 

 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 Susquehamia river, sometimes m.eet with 

 their yomig men out to war, and treat them unkindly ; 

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

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



They take this imkmdiy, because dogs have no sense 

 or understanding 5 vv^hereas they are men, and think that 



