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satisfaction the Governor had expressed to him m the 

 council upon their kind visit, and the freedom and 

 openness that had been used to them on our parts,- and 

 therefore advised him if he had any thing in his thoughts 

 further relating to the friendship established between us 

 and the matters treated in council., he would open his 

 breast in this free conversation, and speak it without 

 reserve, and whatever he said on those heads should be 

 reported faithfully to the Governor. 



Ghesaont then said, that he was very well pleased 

 with what had been spoken. He saw the Governor and 

 the English were true friends to the Five Nations, but as 

 to their young people going out to war, which we 

 chiefly insisted on ; the principal reason was that their 

 young men were become very poor, they could get no- 

 goods nor clothing from the English, and therefore they 

 went abroad to gain them from their enemies. That 

 they had once a clear sky and sunshine at Albany, but 

 now all was overcast; they could no longer trade and 

 and get goods as they had done, of which he could not 

 knoAv the reason, and therefore they had resolved to 

 try whether it was the same among the other English 

 Governments. 



To which Logan answered, that they had from the 

 first settlement of New York and Albany, been in a strict 

 league and friendship with that Government, and had 

 always had a trade with and been supplied by them 

 with goods they wanted. That it was true, for three or 

 four years past, the French had come from Canada to 

 Albany, in New York, and purchased and carried away 

 great part of the goods, strowd waters, especially, 

 sometimes three or four hundred pieces in a year, which 

 the Five Nations ought to have had; but that now, 

 another Governor being lately sent thither, from the 



