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1758] dust, and take all the bitterness out of your heart, and clear the passage from the heart to the throat, that you may speak freely with your brethren, the English, from the heart."

Then Isaac Still gave the pipe, sent by the Friends, filled with tobacco, and handed round, after their custom, and said:

"Brethren, here is the pipe, which your grandfathers used to smoke with, when they met together in councils of peace. And here is some of that good tobacco, prepared for our grandfathers from God:—When you shall taste of it, you shall feel it through all your body; and it will put you in remembrance of the good councils, your grandfathers used to hold with the English, your brethren, and that ancient friendship, thay had together."

King Beaver rose, and thanked us first, that we had cleared his body from the blood, and wiped the tears and sorrow from his eyes, and opened his ears, so that now he could well hear and understand. Likewise he returned thanks for the pipe and tobacco, that we brought, which our grandfathers used to smoke. He said,—"When I tasted that good tobacco, I felt it all through my body, and it made me all over well."

Then we delivered the messages, as followeth:

Governor Denny's answer to the message of the Ohio Indians, brought by Frederick Post, Pesquitomen and Thomas Hickman.

"By this string, my Indian brethren of the United Nations and Delawares, join with me, in requiring of the Indian councils, to which these following messages —————