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a dinner of some flitters, our Bread being nearly out, and our flour so re- -duced as to discourage attempting to bake; while we were frying our flitters, an Indian man came in in and presented us with about four Pounds of fresh Ve- -nison without any bone in it; part of which we immediately fryed, which with our flitters made us the most a- -greeable dinner we have met with in the Indian Country, we sat down to it with thankful hearts for so unex- -pected a supply. we gave the Indian a Quarter of a dollar, for his Venison, which he recieved with an apparant reluctance, but as he could not speak no English, we were altogether at a loss to know, whether it proceeded from what we gave him being too much, or too little, but the same afternoon he took three of us down in a Canoe to Corn- -planters Village to attend a general Council that was to be held there tomorrow, he took the Money with him and gave it to Cornplanter, and said something to him in Indian, which being was, that the Venison he brought us was