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He was a great man, and a good man; his own people 

 loved him; he loved the Indians, and they also loved 

 him; he was as their father; he would never suffer 

 them to be wronged; never would he let his people enter 

 upon any lands until he had fii'st purchased them of the 

 Indians. He was just, and therefore tlie Indians loved 

 him. 



Though he is now removed from us, yet his children 

 and people follow his example, will always take the 

 same measures, so that his and our posterity will be as a 

 long chain of which he was the first link, and one link 

 ends another succeeds, and then anotlier being all firmly 

 bound together in one strong chain to endure forever. — 

 He formerly knit the chain of friendship with you as the 

 chief of all the Indians in these parts, lest this cham 

 sliould grow rusty you now desire it may be secured and 

 made strong, to bind us as one people together. We do 

 assure you it is, and has always been bright on one side, 

 and so we will ever keep it. 



As to your complaint of our traders, that they have 

 treated some of your young men mikindly, I take that to 

 be said only by way of excuse for the follies of your 

 people, thereby endeavoring to persuade me that they 

 were provoked to do what you very well know they did; 

 but, as I told our own Indians tv.^o days ago, I am 

 willing to pass by all these things. You may therefore be 

 assured that our people shall not offer any injury to 

 yours ; or if I know that they do, they shall be severely 

 punished for it. So you must, in like manner, strictly 

 command your young men that they do not offer any 

 injury to ours; for when they pass through the utmost 

 skirts of our inhabitants, where there are no people yet 

 settled, but a few traders, they should be more careful of 

 them as having separated themselves from the body of 



