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that enabled us to stay, which made us so anxious to return. I informed him, when I left home, I expected to have returned in about 40 days, that it was now near 50 days, and if we went by Oneida to see the Indians there, which we proposed, it would take near 30 days more before we got could get home, that our Circumstances as to money was not in the way, for we had plenty. he said he had left home on pub- -lic Business, expecting to have return- -ed in 50 or 60 days, and it had taken him near a Year before he had got back, and that he had found it his duty to sacrafice privet conveniency to public good; and he would have us do so too: we let him know, the business we came about appeared to be agreeable settled to both their and our Minds, that this o- -ther business, was something we knew nothing of about untill since among them, that we would have been will- -ing to have set with them in Coun- -cil, tho did not know we could be of any use service to them, and that the