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as to provision looked a little gloomy, ou our Boat is not being expected up in less than 9 or 10 days from this date, but upon Corn- -planters informing, that he had several three Barrels of flour in his House, that he brought up from Pittsburgh, and when ever we got out of meat, on lit- -ting him know, he would supply us; we felt relieved. We agreed with Cornplan- -ters sister to supply us with three Quarts of Milk a day at 8 Per Quart York Cur- -rency, but she presenly let us know two quarts was as much as she could spare. We also got one pound of but- -ter, such as it was, of her, at 2/. The Chief gave us some Sugar, and some we purchased of the Indians at 1/6 Per Lb. we have a pret- -ty Comfortable House much to ourselves, Corn- -planter has two Houses they stand about 10 feet apart, tho Roofed over between as the o other parts of the House which is with Bark, this Space between the Houses serves for an entry, and a place to pound their Corn under put their Wood &;c. out of this entry a door opens into each apart