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thick, with another of boiled fquafh ; food 
after, the chiefs in a friendly manner took their 
leave of us, and departed every one to his 
lodging: this night we treated two of the 
chiefs that lived in the council hall, which as 
I mentioned, was our quarters; they drank 
chearfully, wifhing a long continuance of un- ' 
interrupted amity between the Indians and 
Englijh. 
Augufi i. Six of the Antkoque Indians had 
an audience, but when they came to it, could 
not make rhemfelves underflood, tho’ provided 
with ah interpreter brought near 700 miles, 
(they faid more) but he could not underhand 
the Mohawk Language, but only the Delawar 
and middling Englijh , * fo they contrived he 
fhould diretl his fpeech to Conrad Wei far in 
EngliJJjj and interpret this to the council. They 
gave broad belts of Watnjmnt, 3 arm belts 
and 5 firings; one was to wipe clean all the 
blood they had fpilt of the five nations , another 
to raife a tumulus over their graves, and to 
pick 
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* P. Charlevoix, perhaps from his own knowledge and the 
Information he has received from his brother miilionaries, tells 
ns, that the languages of the northern part of North Amenta, 
are properly 3 , the Sioux or A adouiffiour , called by th c Englijh 
Norway, the Algonquin or Adirondack, and the Huron or %u4- 
toghie of which laft he makes the Iroquois called by ouf author 
the Mohawk, a dialed* ; but adds, he knew not what language 
is talked by the Cberokees, whether the language of the Ante- 
toques be a dialeft of the laft which is very poffible, <jr of the 
Adirondack which I take the Delawar to be, I can’t deter- 
mine. 
