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would visit us then again, which would be much more 

 convenient than so far back in the woods where it was 

 difficult to accommodate them and ourselves, that, how- 

 ever, we were glad to see them here. This they knew 

 was a Government but lately settled, but that they were 

 now going into two Governments that had been much 

 longer seated, and were very rich, and would make them 

 exceedingly welcome; that we saw them in the woods 

 only, at a great distance from home, but they would see 

 tlie Governors of Virginia and Maryland, at their own 

 towns and houses, where they would entertain them 

 much better; that they would be very kindly received, 

 for we were all of one heart and mind, and should 

 always entertain them as our brothers. 



Ghesaont took an opportunity of himself to enter again 

 on the subject of their people making peace with the 

 other Indians on the main. He said that he had in his 

 own person labored for it to the utmost ; that he had 

 taken more pains to have it established than all the 

 English had done; that their people had lately made 

 peace with the Tweuchtwese; that they had now a 

 universal peace with all the Indians, excepting three 

 small nations to the southward, with whom they hoped 

 to have concluded upon his present journey by means of 

 the Governor of Virginia; that his own desires were 

 very strong for peace, as his endeavors had shewn, and 

 that he doubted not to see it established every where. — 

 He said the Governor had spoken veiy well in the coun- 

 cil against their young men going to war, yet had not 

 done it fully enough, for he should have told them 

 positively that they should not on any account be 

 suffered to go out to war, and he would have reported 

 it accordingly, and this would have been a more 

 effectual way to prevent them. 



