NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.



Atlantic Ocean
skins to send th
them; and put "
we now do, anm
rest of our land
that land to no



;3 we give these two wv
) the oreat Sachem, that
a great red seal to them,
d put the Susquehairna
t ilnder the great lD)uke o
ne else. Oar brethren,



hite dressed deer
he may write on
to confirm what
River and all the
if York, and give
his people, have



been like
given us
there fore
ment bu
send this
who dwe



fathe
bread
Joln 0
t this.
our I
dlls on



rs to our wives and
when we were in nec
urselves or our land
We desire Corlear,1
proposition to the or
the other side of the



children



Ad of i
to an)
* our
eat S
great



and



have



it; we will not
r tother aovern-
governor, may
achem Charles
lake, with this



belt of wampum, and this other smal Ibelt, to the Duke of
York his brother, and we give you Corlear this beaver
that you may send over the proposition.
  "c You. oreat man of Vircinia, we let you know that the



gre
his
us.
ten
  C



do
for



at Penn did
acrent>, and
but we wc
ed it to this
' We desire
now, and th
e,; let your



* speak to us here, ii
desired to buy the S
utild not hearken to
;rovernment.
you therefore to bea
at we now confirm -xA
friend that lives on



rL Corl ear's house, by
usquehanna River of
him, for we had fas-



r witness of what we
rliat we have done be-
the other side of the



great lak
united to
chen wfe
we say."
  On thl



6e know this, that we, beino free people, though
, the Enalish, and may give our land to the Sa-
1 like best; we o'ive this beaver to remember what
             hI



e



arrival of



the



Senecas



they addressed Lord



Howard in the following manner:
  " We have heard arid understood what misc
been done in Virginia; we have it perfect as i1
on our finaer's end. 0 Corlear! we thank
having been our intercessor, so that the axe has
en on us; and you, Assarigoa, Great Sachem,



nia, wre thank you for burying all



evil in the I



hief has
f it were
you for
not fall-
of Virgi-
)it. We



* The name they gave the Governor of New York.



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