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concern; the Tribes under our care have been visited by some of our number, and such attention and assistance afforded them as appeared to be necessary. Having in former reports stated the particular circumstances of the different Tribes, we do not at this time judge it necessary to repeat the same, except that in addition to our encouraging them in the cultivation of their land, we have suggested to them the advantages that would probably result from their women's learning to spin and weave to provide themselves with cloathing. In order to encourage them in this very useful undertaking, we have furnished some of the Tribes with flax &; wool &; a number of wheels to make a beginning which has succeeded beyond our expectation, and been a means of inducing some of them to raise these articles for themselves Friends in England being desirous of obtaining information respecting the rise and progress of this concern; and the Meeting for Sufferings in London having requested to be furnished with