e, they constantly make us pay
the dearer on that Account. We must now use the same Argument with them:
Our Deer are killed in such Quantities, and our Hunting-Countries grown
less every Day, by the Settlement of white People, that Game is now
difficult to find, and we must go a great Way in Quest of it; they
therefore ought to give us a better Price for our Skins; and we desire
you would speak to them to do so. We have been stinted in the Article of
Rum in Town. We desire you will open the Rum-Bottle, and give it to us
in greater Abundance on the Road.

_To inforce this Request, about the_ Indian _Traders, we
present you with this Bundle of Skins._

'_BRETHREN_,

When we first came to your Houses, we found them clean and in Order: But
we have staid so long as to dirty them; which is to be imputed to our
different Way of Living from the white People: And therefore, as we
cannot but have been disagreeable to you on this Account, we present you
with some Skins to make your Houses clean, and put them into the same
Condition they were in when we came amongst you.

'_BRETHREN_,

The Business the _Five Nations_ transact with you is of great
Consequence, and requires a skilful and honest Person to go between us;
one in whom both you and and [Transcriber's Note: repeated word in
original] we can place a Confidence.--We esteem our present Interpreter
to be such a Person, equally faithful in the Interpretation of whatever
is said to him by either of us, equally allied to both; he is of our
Nation, and a Member of our Council as well as of yours. When we
adopted him, we divided him into Two equal Parts: One we kept for our
selves, and one we left for you. He has had a great deal of Trouble with
us, wore out his Shoes in our Messages, and dirty'd his Cloaths by being
amongst us, so that he is become as nasty as an _Indian_.

'In Return for these Services, we recommend him to your Generosity; and
on our own Behalf, we give him _Five Skins_ to buy him Clothes and Shoes
with.

'_BRETHREN_,

'We have still one more Favour to ask. Our Treaty, and all we have to
say about publick Business, is now over, and to morrow we design to
leave you. We hope, as you have given us Plenty of good Provision whilst
in Town, that you will continue your Goodness so far as to supply us
with a little more to serve us on the Road. And we likewise desire you
will provide us with Waggons, to carry our Goods to the Place where they
are to