now the number of your red children
Father. There are many who never yet received any arms or clothing.
It is necessary at present, Father, to send more than you formerly
did.

"Father--Listen.--At the beginning of the war you promised us when
the Americans would put their hand forward you would draw yours
back. Now Father we request when the Americans put their hand out,
(as we hear they mean to do) knock it away Father, and the second
time when they put out their hand, draw your sword.--If not Father,
the Americans will laugh at us, and say our Great Father, who is
beyond the Great Lake is a coward Father.

"Father--Listen.--The Americans are taking our lands from us every
day, they have no hearts, Father, they have no pity for us. They
want to drive us beyond the setting sun. But Father, we hope,
although we are few, and are here as it were upon a little Island,
our Great and Mighty Father, who lives beyond the Great Lake, will
not forsake us in our distress, but will continue to remember his
faithful red children.

"This is all I have to say. This is from our Chiefs and Warriors,
this is all they have to say."

NEWASH then advanced to His Excellency, and presented him with the
Black Wampum and Bloody Belt.

His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief then made the Chiefs and Warriors
the following answer to the talks or speeches that had been addressed
to him in their behalf.

"My Children.--I thank the Great Spirit for his protection of you on
your long journey, and I rejoice to meet you at Quebec, the Great
Council Fire on this side the Great Lake.

"My Children.--You have freely and forcibly spoken your sentiments,
and I am happy to have heard from your own mouths, your thoughts,
as I know on these occasions you always speak the truth. I am
therefore delighted to hear my red children declare their
attachment to the King our Great Father, beyond the Great Lake, and
to myself and my Warriors.

"My Children.--I have opened my ears and listened with attention to
what you have said. My heart was sore when I heard of the death of
a great warrior. It still bleeds when I think of his loss, and the
misfortunes my children have met with during the war, in the death
of many a wise chief and brave warrior, and some of your women and
children who are gone to see the Great Spirit, before wh