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No. 8 both time and talents to fancy bead word for a little cash to supply their pressing wants. They have very little furniture in their houses and both their persons and families sustain a great loss by their misapplication of time &; talent. The Tonawanda's location in Genesee County are reduced to about 450, and their reservation which the Ogden Co. claim, is estimated at 12,800 acres; they raise wheat and other small grain, and their farms are estimated form small lots to 75 acres, some of which look promising. They have a few frame houses and barns, but their improvements every way have been much impeded by the unsettled state which this company have thrown them into for the last 10 years. There are not less than 40 fami- lies of white people who have procured land of this Company, and settled on the reservation to the great annoyance of the rightful proprietors of the soil. The Baptist society have had a labor school in opperation for 20 years, and 800 Indians youth of both sexes have received instruction in labor as well as the use of books, and the beneficial effects of such instruction is very apparent in the midst of all their discou- ragement; I could not ascertain their stock &; without raising their suspicions; after having an interview with their Chief and leading men and hearing their grievances, thought it most prudent to leave them with the hope that they may become more settled in their minds.