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murders. A small hatchet still out against the Cherokees would 

 be called back. Etiquette ruled on this occasion, and Tagawarra, 

 a chief warrior of the Oneidas, rose to correct some errors of the 

 sachems. Some bones of the Iroquois and the Cherokees might 

 lie along the road both were now to travel. He said : " We 

 therefore now collect the bones of both people, and after the 

 manner of our ancestors, we inter them in a deep pit, so that the 

 water shall carry them away, forever from our sight." 



Johnson took a severe cold while attending this open air council 

 and went to the seashore for his health Ap. 24, leaving Guy 

 Johnson in charge of affairs. The necessary belts were sent for 

 the boundary conference, but it could not be held before Sep- 

 tember. Indian affairs westward looked bad, and bad belts had 

 come to the Six Nations. In August, however, Governor Moore 

 was able to settle the 60 years dispute about the Kayaderosseras 

 patent; the patentees releasing part of the land claimed to the 

 Indians, and the Indians giving up the surveyed portions on the 

 receipt of $5000. In an earlier visit to the Mohawk country, 

 Governor Moore examined the carrying place at Little Falls, 

 surveying that ground with a view to making a canal there and 

 avoiding a portage. This he would recommend to the Assembly. 

 The carrying places afforded a considerable revenue to Indians 

 disposed to work. 



In September Johnson went to Fort Stanwix for the boundary 

 conference. The Indians came in slowly ; but by Oct. i there 

 were 805 there. Those of most consequence had not come, a 

 Seneca chief having died suddenly, whom it was necessary to 

 condole in that country. This delay occasioned great expense, 

 as by Oct. 14 there were 930 Indians present, each of whom ate 

 more than two ordinary white men^ and did not like to be stinted 

 at councils. Worse than this, there were private belts passing 

 among them and all sorts of stories. Those who had been most 

 desirous of a boundary line now cared least for it. The French 

 and Spaniards had given a formal invitation to a general Indian 

 council at the Mississippi, and this might make trouble. 



