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committee Then adjourned to the 5th hour this afternoon About the time adjourned to the committee met and an essay of a communication to theIndians being considered was agreed on being asFollows To Tarhic Buckengihilas and other chiefs ofthe Wyandot and Delaware Nation of Indians BrothersYou sent us a speech &; Belt of Wampumfrom your great council held last fall was 2 yearsat Detroit. In that speech you told us that thenwas a Chain of friendship formed between yourforefathers and ours, that you were then told itwas a chain of precious metal, a chain ofsilver that would never grow rusty and that itwould bind us in brotherly affection forever Brothers We were glad to hear, that you stillkeep in remembrance this agreement between yourgrand fathers &; ours when they first met on yourland on this great Island—ever since that time wehave held fast our end of this chain of friendship Brothers In that speech you told us, that if anyamongst us were sent to visit you in yourtents the next summer that they would be likelyto go by San Dusky and that you would then