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words, viz : five siroud coats, twenty pounds of powder, 

 and forty pounds of lead, for each of the Five Nations ; 

 that is, twenty-five coats, one hundred weight of powder, 

 and two hundred of lead, in the whole, which I desire 

 may be delivered to them, with these my words in my 

 name and the behalf of the province. 



I shall be glad frequently to see some of your chief 

 men sent in the name of all the rest, but desire you will 

 be so kind as to come to us to Philadelphia to visit our 

 families and children born there, where we can provide 

 better for you and make you more welcome ; for people 

 always receive their friends best at their own houses. — 

 I heartily wish you well on your journey and good 

 success on it. And when you return home, I desire you 

 will give my very kind love, and the love of all our 

 people, to your kings and to all their people. 



Then the Governor rose up from his chair, and when 

 he had called Ghesaont, the speaker to him, he took a 

 coronation medal of the King's out of his pocket, and 

 presented it to the Indians, in these words: 



That our children, when we are dead, may not forget 

 these things, but keep this treaty between us in perpetual 

 remembrance, I here deliver you a picture in gold, 

 bearing the image of my great master, the King of all 

 the English ; and when you return home I charge you to 

 deliver this piece into the hands of the first man or 

 greatest chief of all the Five Nations, whom you call 

 Kannygoodk, to be laid up and kept as a token to your 

 children's children, that an entire and lasting friendship is 

 now established forever between the English, in this 

 country, and the great Five Nations." 



By the approbation and direction of Gov. Keith, James 

 Logan, secretary, held a discourse with Ghesaont, on the 

 0th ef July. Logan reminded Ghesaent ef the great 



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