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At a meeting of the Indian Committee, held at Pipe Creek the 20th of 5th month, 1797, im-mediately after the conclusion of the Meeting for Sufferings, which convened at that place, a very serious consideration of the important charge entrusted to them impressed the minds of the Friends in attendance, and Joel Wright expressed a willingness, if provided with suita-ble company to undertake a journey to the N. West of the river Ohio, for the purpose of fur-nishing the Committee with more full informa-tion respecting the situation and disposition of the Indians. The Committee approved his proposalm and he was left at liberty to make the journey. The Committee on Indian Affairs met again on the 7th of Tenth month, 1797, and received a most interesting account from Joel Wright and the companions of his journey,-Reese Cad-wallader and David Greaves,-of their visit to the Indian country, dated the 15th of Ninth month, 1797, from which communication the following extract was copied:* * On a recent examination of the Records of the Indian Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting, in order to test the correctness of the abridgment now published, the incidents, dates and names were found to be exactly similar. In the course of this journey, after having visited a number of Indian hunting camps and several of their towns, we had a large oppor-