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their brothers should not compare them to such creatures.. 

 That some of our traders calling their young men by 

 those names, the young men answered, "if they were 

 dogs then they might act as such;'^ whereupon, they 

 seized a keg of their liquor and ran away with it. 



N. B. — This seems to be told in their artful way to 

 excuse some small robberies that had been committed by 

 their young people. 



Then laying down a belt of wampum upun the table, 

 he proceeded, and said: That all their disorders arose 

 from the use of rum and strong spirits, which took away 

 their sense and memory ; that they had no such liquors 

 among themselves, but were hurt with what we fur- 

 nished to them, and therefore desired them that no 

 more of that sort might be sent among them. 



He presented a bundle of dressed skins, and said: 

 That the Five Nations, faithfully, remembered all their 

 ancient treaties, and now desire that the chain of friend- 

 ship, between them and us, may be made strong as that 

 none of the links can never be broken. 



Presents a bundle of raw skins, and observes : That a 

 chain may contract rust with lying and become weaker 

 wherefore, he desires it may now become so Avell 

 cleaned as to remain brighter and stronger than ever it 

 was before. 



Presents another parcel of skins, and says : That as in 

 the firmament all clouds and darkness are removed from 

 the face of the sun, so they desire that all misunderstand- 

 ings may be fully done away ; so that when they who 

 are now here shall be dead and gone, their whole people 

 with their children and posterity, may enjoy the clear 

 sunshine of friendship \»ith us forever, without any 

 thing to interpose and obscure it. 



Presents another bundle of skins^ and says : That 



