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membered the friendship which had subsisted between their Society and the Indians, from their first settlement in America; and recollect-ing that the Western country was fast filling up with white people, and that game would ne-cessarily become scarce, they feared the Indians would be brought into a state of suffering. That, in consequence of the long wars that had subsisted between them and some of the white people, the Friends for a long time had not had an opportunity of taking them by the hand. That so soon as an opportunity had presented, after a peace was effected, a concern had arisen in their council, and several Friends were ap-pointed to go out into the wilderness and have a talk with them. He then called upon the Friend who sat at his right hand, Evan Thomas, who had been one of the mission to the Plains of Sandusky, to give an account of the move-ment in this concern. Evan Thomas then gave a very concise relation of the journey, and the conference with the Wyandot Chiefs, (which has been before alluded to, and of which a narrative was published some years since by Philip E. Thomas,) and proceeded to inform the deputation that the Friends had received no re-sponse to the proposals then made to the In-dians; but a belt of wampum and a speech had been sent them from a council held at Detroit, and an invitation to attend their General Coun-cil. After he had concluded, another member