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thick, with another of boiled fquafh ; foon 
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 ; the}^ drank 
chearfully, wifhing a long continuance of un- 
interrupted amity between the Indians and 
Englifh. 
Auguft i. Six of the Anticoque Indians had 
an audience, but when they came to it, could 
not make themfelves understood, tho’ provided 
with an interpreter brought near 700 miles, 
(they faid more) but he could not underhand 
the Mohawk Language, but only the Delawar 
and middling Englifh , * fo they contrived he 
fhould diredf his fpeech to Conrad Weifar in 
Englifh , and interpret this to the council. They 
gave broad belts of Wampum , 3 arm belts 
and 5 ftrings ; 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 
* P. Charlevoix , perhaps from his own knowledge and the 
information he has received from his brother miffionaries, tells 
ns, that the languages of the northern part of North America , 
are properly 3, the Sioux or Nadouiffiour , called by the Englifh 
Norway , the Algonquin or Adirondack , and the Huron or Qua - 
toghie of which laft he makes the Iroquois called by our author 
the Mohawk , a dialect ; but adds, he knew not what language 
is talked by the Cherokees, whether the language of the Ante- 
coques be a dialed! of the laft which is very poffible, or of the 
Adirondack which I take the Delaivar to be, I can’t deter- 
mine. 
