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After a short pause, the Little Turtle inquired if the Friends had any thing more to say, and being told that we were all willing to listen to him, he rose up and said: Brothers and Friends: My heart returns thanks to the Great Spirit above, that has put it in our power to speak to each other. My brother chiefs and myself are glad that our Friends and brothers, the Quakers, have such great compassion for their Red brethren. He then spoke of the belief of the Indians, in one Great Creator of all the men upon the earth, and who were made when the earth, the sun, moon, and stars were also made, to be useful to them and give them light. After referring to the desire of the Friends to benefit the In-dians, and their need of that assistance, he added: You have been kept in the straight path by the Great and Good Spirit. We have been led astray by inferior spirits: we now hope that we may come upon your track, and follow it. He then said the long and destructive wars that have raged in the country of our Red brethren, since your fathers first came amongst them, have caused their numbers to be greatly diminished. Those that have come among us, have very much cheated and imposed upon us. They found us simple and ignorant, and have taken great care to keep every thing from us, in order to profit by our ignorance. Friends and Brothers,-We find you are now