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we said nothing more about it for three years, to see whether you were our friends or not -- You also brought tools on for us to work with in which we found a great advantage -- we then began to improve and do much better than before. You then wish'd to instruct our chil- dren to read and write - this we could not agree too because our people were then so fond of hunting &; they would take their wives &; children into the woods with them you must not think hard of this -- In our counsels with you at that time Cornplanter answer'd your speeches without consulting us, but it is not so now, we are all agreed to what we say --- Te,ki,an,da, generally called Blacksnake then arose and made reply to the address the Committee had sent with us, nearly as follows -- Brothers the Quakers, We expect it is the mind of the Great Spirit that we have met together in Counsel to day, and