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take them not only by the hand but by the armand conduct them safe to the grand Councilfire of your great Sasteretsy where every thinggood is transacted &; nothing bad is permited toappear Brothers We accordingly sent out some ofour friends about 2 years ago, these went as faras upper San Dusky—you received them like brethrenbut they found that they had got there too soonfor your great council and having little pro-vissions for themselves &; horses and not being accus-tomed to live in the woods, they were discouragedfrom proceeding any further and proposed to holda talk with some of your chiefs then presentthese chiefs agreed to it and when they met ourfriends made a speech to them and they ret.an answer on 4 things of Wampum, but theyoung man that talked between them, could notspeak plain and our friends were sorry they couldnot fully understand what was said at that timeand expect that your Chiefs did not understandwhat our friends said for they told us you intendedto send us soon the conclusion of your great council respecting our business with you &;we have had no account from you since Brothers They were also discouraged on account