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with their conduct since their residenceamongst them- These friends whilst at the stationhad a conference with the Indians of theVillage and delivered a communicationaddressed to them by the committee- Thewhite Loon a principal chief of the placeon behalf of himself &; the others acknowledgedthe propriety of what was said, but declined givinga full reply until after the general council whichwas soon after to be held at Fort Wayne, when aparticular reply he said would be made. Theylikewise afterwards had a conference with adeputation from the Miamy &; Puttowattomy nationsat Fort Wayne at which time an address fromthe committee to those nations was delivered tothem, as also a written communication from the friends themselves In reply the 5 Medals said that hefelt thankful to the great spirit for havingpermited them to meet at that time andexpressed his satisfaction with what was saidbut observed that as only a few of the principal chiefs were present they could not reply