SW_JS1798_039

The Chief presently asked us, if we would like to see his people in general Council, we let him know that we would, as soon as it was Convenient, and tomorrow at 10 OClock was therefore fixed on for the time; and runners dispatched immediately for that purpose. to give notice. It was two O’clock when we arrived here, and sometime after the above Conference, Cornplanter came into our apartment, and asked us if we could eat in the Indian way, we informed him we ex- -pected we could, and he presently we had some Dinner brought in some dinner in a bark bowl, and a Tin kettle, the bowl was placed on the seat beside us, and the kettle on the ground before us, and we were invited to eat, we saw the bowl, and the kettle, but what was in either of them we knew not, or whether they were to be eaten together, or separate, the bowl contained a number of round lumps of something tied in Cornhu -husks, two dumplings were tyed in one set of husks, with a string at each end and in the middle, we let them know that our Ignorance was such, we did not know how to begin, which set some of the younger sort