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time, as is evident from what our conference 
with them, produced afterward at Lancajkr 
begun the 22d of 'June 1744. 
This council was followed by a feaft, after 
4 o’clock we all dined together upon 4 great 
kettles of Indian corn loop, which we loon 
emptied, and then every chief retired to his 
home. 
31//, In the morning, as foon as light, I 
walked out to look at our horfes as ufual, 
and clofe by a cabin fpied a knife almoft 
covered with graft; I fuppofed it loft, but 
the Indians being not yet Hiring let it lie : 
a little after fun-rife I walked there again, 
and the Squaw being at the door, fhcwed 
her where it lay, at which fhe feemcd ex- 
ceeding pleafed, and picked it up immediately. 
As I came back to our cabin, I fpy’d 2 Indian 
girls at play with beans, which they threw- 
from one to the other on a match coat fpread 
between them ; as they were behind our ca- 
bin, I turned to fee how they play’d, but 
they feemed much out of countenance, and 
run off in an inftant: I obferved that the In- 
dian women are generally very modeft. 
About noon the council fat a zd time, and 
our interpreter had bis audience, being charge 
by the governor with the conduct of the treaty. 
Conrad iVeif r had engaged the Indian fpeakcr 
to open the affair to the chiefs alTembled in 
council ; he made a fpeecK near half an hour, 
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