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porcupine quills, and small beads, they are latterly getting much in the practice of wearing hats, The dress of the Woman is much like that of the Men save a short woollen petticoat and a broadcloth wrapper instead of a coat. The Women about us have a number of corn patches interspreed through the bushes which they tend with their hoes, they plant the hills about 3 feet apart with 8 or 10 stalks in a hill, their activity in hilling and weeding it is somewhat extraordinary 27th of Sixth month Cornplanter being at our House we enquired of him if he would sell us some boards to build a House he replyed that we might have as many as we wanted at two Dollars per hundred and he would deliver them at at our landing, a few days after he sent for us to come to the Saw mill and see the boards measured out, we immediate-ly went and found Cornplanter and several other Indians at the Mill. here we had a pretty stricking instance of the generosity of Cornplanter, for as we had told the Indians in council at our first coming