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made for the use of our red brethren &; desired thatthey might be distributed amongst them as tokens ofour friendship BrothersYour brothers of Baltimore receivedlast fall through the hands of William Wells aTalk from their brothers the Little Turtle &; Five Medalsand others informing us that they had received theimplements of Husbandry, and requested that theirbrothers of Baltimore would send some of their peo-ple into the country of their red brethren, for thepurpose of seeing their situation and shewing themhow to make use of the Tools saying they did notknow how to begin BrothersIt is for this purpose that we havenow come, and we again repeat that we rejoice wehave this opportunity of seeing you and of taking youby the hand BrothersIn coming into the Country ofour red brethren we have come with our eyes open andalthough we are affected with sorrow in believing thatmany of the red people suffer much for the want of foodand for the want of cloathing yet our hearts have beenmade glad in seeing that it has pleased the great Spiritto give you a rich and valuable Country, because thatwe know it is out of the Earth that food and cloathingcome. We are sure brothers that with but little labour &;attention you may raise much more corn and othergrain, than will be necessary for yourselves, your women