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and requested that any information intended for them should be conveyed to them through their interpreter, William Wells, Indian agent at Fort Wayne. After taking his seat, this chief appeared to have reflected that he had not answered fully the questions proposed to them, and rising again, said: Brothers and Friends: It is the real wish of your brothers, the Indians, to engage in the cultivation of our lands, and although the game is not yet so scarce but that we can get enough to eat, we know it is becoming scarce, and that we must begin to take hold of such tools as we see are in the hands of the white people. After-wards he alluded in forcible language to the con-fidence which the Red men had in the Friends, and that they knew they desired no compensa-tion for their services to them, and added, Bro-thers, we are a jealously disposed people-almostevery white man that comes among us endeavors to cheat us; this has occasioned jealousy among us. But your talks, brothers, are different, and we believe you. The Five Medals then made a speech, in which he reiterated much that the Little Turtle had spoken, and continued: Friends and Broth-ers, the talks that you have now delivered to us shall be carefully collected, wrapped up and put in our hearts,-we will not forget them. On our return home, we will have them com-