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advantage at the treaty, in procuring the enlarge-ment of prisoners more generally. 15th. Abiah Park came to see us. He is a trader with the Indians. He entertains doubts of a peace; yet says, if one can be made, it will be permanent. This forenoon felt easy to appoint a meeting, to be-gin at ten o'clock to-morrow, at a shop in the ship-yard, under the direction of William Baker, a Friend in principle, and cousin to George Baker of Phila-delphia. In the evening several Indians of the Wyandot tribe came to our lodgings to see us. They liveabout twenty miles from this place, at a town called Mogogam. One Samuel Sanders, a Scotchman, who lives with them, interpreted. They told us theyhad heard their fathers say, the Quakers were hon-est, and never wronged them; and they hoped we would stand for justice, and not see them wronged, at the treaty. We informed them we came in love to see them, and to renew old friendship; that the power did not lay with us — but we believed the commis-sioners were sincerely disposed for peace. There also came to our lodgings, a party of the Chipawas — an old chief and several warriors, one of whom had a human scalp, with beautiful fair curled hair on it, tied to his ear. These were some of those, who, a day or two before, had treated us so roughly. A white man who stood near us at that time, and un-derstood their language, told us they had a desire to have our scalps. They appear to be a terrible nation, fierce, insolent and warlike; and, I believe, exceedingly injured by their intercourse with the white people, especially the French, many of whom are little more refined than they. Their almost in-