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homewards, the other said he did not wit-ness that clearness to set out he wished toexperience, yet condescended if his compan-ion thought best of letting the chief know, that upon weighing his request, in thebest manner they could they felt easy to move homewards this morning: thisinformation was given him. He with a number of others prettysoon came to our lodgings, and expressed,he was sorry we could not make our mineseasy to have stayed a few days longer, notdoubting but Captain Chapin, and others con-cerned would be here to day. But perhapsas whe had been a considerable time from home,and living was expensive, we might bemuch run out of the meas that would enable us to stay. I informed him that when Ileft home, I expected to have returned inabout 40 days, that it was now near fiftydays, and if we went to Onida to see theIndians there, which we proposed, it wouldtake near thirty days more, before we could gethome: that our circumstances in regard to money were not in the way, for we had plenty. He said he had left his home on publicbusiness, expecting to have returned in fiftyor sixty days, and it had taken him near a