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E. The draft furnished to me is in your own 
handwriting, and you certainly ought to have 
made no alteration; but, as the change is not 
material, I will not object to it.— B. We made 
no alteration. The draft is exactly as it ori¬ 
ginally stood. 
1 was not prepared for so stout an assertion 
as this, and had no wish to contend the point 
any longer. The Atwen-wuns, however, con¬ 
tinued the conversation with Mr. Judson, whom 
they did not hesitate to charge directly with hav¬ 
ing erased the expression in his copy. Mr. Jud¬ 
son warmly remonstrated, handed over the copy 
to the Than-d’hau-than who had written it for 
perusal, and made him acknowledge that the 
whole was in his own handwriting, and that no 
alteration whatever had been made. The At¬ 
wen-wuns passed the matter over with a laugh ; 
which did not surprise me, after the repeated ex¬ 
amples I had of their great sang-froid on such 
occasions. 
The subject of the convention, for prolong¬ 
ing the period of the payment of the third and 
fourth instalments, and for adjusting the ac¬ 
counts of the second, was introduced. 
E. The sketch of a convention which I pro¬ 
duced at the last meeting, and which you altered 
and corrected according to your own views, is 
