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should be held of the heads of every tribe,, to 
take the subject into consideration; but cer¬ 
tain of the tribes, suspicious of Brandt’s de¬ 
signs, and fearful that he was bent upon 
acquiring power for himself by this measure, 
opposed it with all their might. Brandt has 
in consequence become extremely obnoxious 
to many of the most warlike, and with such a 
jealous eye do they now regard him, that it 
would not be perfectly safe for him to venture 
to the upper country. 
He has managed the affairs of his own peo¬ 
ple with great ability, and leased out their 
superfluous lands for them, for long terms of 
years* by which measure a certain annual re¬ 
venue is ensured to the nation, probably as 
long as it will remain a nation. He wisely 
judged, that it was much better to do so than 
to suffer the Mohawks, as many other tribes 
had done, to sell their possessions by piecemeal, 
the sums of money they received for which, 
however great, would soon be dissipated if paid 
to them at once. 
Whenever the affairs of his nation shall per¬ 
mit him to do so, Brandt declares it to be his 
intention to sit down to the further study of 
the Greek language, of which he professes him¬ 
self to be a great admirer, and to translate from 
the original, into the Mohawk language, more 
of the New Testament; yet this same man. 
