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much apparent affection and friendship) and ac-quianted them through the interpreter William Wellswith the contents of the letter from the committeedirected to them and others. After which we expressedto them a desire to see their chiefs and young menmore generally, having as we believed some things ofgreat importance, to their welfare to communicateand knowing that it was the season of the year inwhich most of the Indians were engaged in theirhunting and Sugar Camps, we requested them toconvene as many of their chiefs and principal youngmen as could with convenience be collected in thecourse of a few days. They expressed a desire thatwe would not be in haste to return, but would remainsome time in their country, observing, that it wastheir desire we should see their people generally, &;that the season of the year was near at hand, forthem to return to their Towns when they could readilyconvene the most of them, adding, that they couldnow collect a considerable number of their indolentones, who were too lazy to hunt or make sugar, butsuch they did not wish us to see We informed them that we had with usPhilip Dennis who was willing to remain with themduring the season for the purpose of assisting them inraising a crop of corn, and shewing them how todo other things, that the time for him to commence his