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and other adjacent places, Peter and Pipskoe, chiefs of 

 Ganawese, with their several interpreters. 



The Governor congratulated them on their coming to 

 see him, and they were all satisfied with him. A num- 

 ber of presents were made them, before their departure 

 for home. 



The following year the Governor paid the Indians a 

 Tisit at Conestogo, "where he found them very much 

 inclined to the English, and to the proprietary, and his 

 government in particular; but that they had complained 

 to him that several persons make it then' business to way- 

 lay their young men returning from hunting, making them 

 drunk with rum, and then cheat them of their skins, and 

 that if some method be not taken to prevent it, they must 

 be forced to remove themselves or starve, their depen- 

 dence being entirely upon their peltry ; whereupon it is 

 thought proper that such Indian traders as are foreigners, 

 being admitted and licensed by the Governor, shall 

 Gome imder such regulation as the Governor and 

 council, from time to time, shall direct and appoint." 



If any reliance can be placed on the following tradi- 

 tion, for it should be considered such,* the Swedes also^ 

 as well as others, felt interested in the spiritual welfare of 

 the Indians of Lancaster county, and sent missionaries 

 among them to instruct them in the doctrines of the 

 christian religion. One of their missionaries, who re- 

 sided a few years at Conestogo, either at the time of 

 Governor Gookin's first visit to the Indians at Conestogo, 



^Robert Proud, who wrote a History of Pennsylvania, in 

 1780, says this speech had been printed in Pennsylvania, as a 

 genuine speech of an Indian chief in the province ; but 

 whether it be really so, or not, it certainly contains arguments 

 which have been used by some of these people, and it may 

 serve, in part, to give some idea of their sentiments on thia 

 subject. 



