SW_GH1804_002

JOURNAL. Many of my friends having been solicitous for the privilege of a perusal of the minutes I preserved in the course of my late visit to the Western Indians, I have been induced to devote a small portion of leisure time to the purpose of attempting such an arrangement of them, as would convey, intelligibly, both the route we took, and the various circumstances attending upon our journey. The judicious reader will doubtless make proper allowances for the difficulty there is in composing an entertaining diary over that of a history, where circumstances are not necessarily confined to day and time. As a suitable introduction to my Journal, I deem it proper to insert the following letter. It will serve to show the intercourse which had previously taken place between the Indian Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting and some of the Indian chiefs of the Western tribes.