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hurts them, and the less they get the better for them.It is, therefore, evident, that in proportion to theirintercourse with the whites, they have increased intreachery, fraud, drunkenness, and licentiousness ofevery kind; and appear, at present, not unlikely tobe a rod prepared for our close chastisement. Being in their nature, or by habit, unfeeling andferocious, I have often in this journey, had my feel-ings wounded, by seeing old gray-headed women,carrying heavy burdens of skins, venison, brooms,matchcoats, &;c. with large drops of sweat rollingfrom their aged brows; when several sprightly young and middle-aged men, went lightly on before them,with nothing to carry but their clothes, tomahawk,and scalping knife, dangling by their thigh. 21st. Last evening, I had an account from a man who came from the Glades up the Miami-of-the-lake,that the Creek and Cherokee Indians passed throughthe Delaware towns there, and produced a piece oftobacco died red, which was received as the decla-ration of war against the United States — that thewhite prisoners were very numerous amongst theIndians — and that, at the Rapids, as he came along, he saw a beautiful woman, well dressed, just broughtin. This morning, a number of Oneida Indians cameto our lodgings, and informed, that two of their number had just come from the Rapids, and broughttidings, that it was reported there, that Wayne'sarmy was advancing, and large numbers of the In-dians had left the Council, to go to defend theirtowns. They sent to the Oneidas to repair to theirassistance, which they were resolved not to complywith. Which determination, we endeavored to