14th.—The people crowded to my house; it was full. We had much talk. _Delaware George_[30] said, he had not slept all night, so much had he been engaged on account of my coming. The _French_ came, and would speak with me. There were then fifteen of them building houses for the _Indians_. The captain is gone with fifteen to another town. He can speak the _Indian_ tongue well. The _Indians_ say he is a cunning fox; that they get a great deal of goods from the _French_; and that the French cloath the _Indians_ every year, men, women and children, and give them as much powder and lead as they want. 15th.—_Beaver_ king was informed, that _Teedyuscung_ had said he had turned the hatchet against the _French_, by advice of the _Alleghany Indians_; this he blamed, as they had never sent him such advice. But being informed it was his own doing, without any persuasion of the Governor, he was easy on that head. _Delaware Daniel_ prepared a dinner, to which he invited me, and all the kings and captains; and when I came, he said, “Brother, we are as glad to see you among us, as if we dined with the Governor and people in Philadelphia. We have thought a great deal since you have been here. We never thought so much before.”[31] I thanked them for their kind reception; I said, it was something great, that God had spared our lives, to see one another again, in the old brother-like love and friendship. There were in all thirteen, who dined together. In the evening they danced at my fire, first the men, and then the women, till after midnight. On the 16th, the king and captains called on me privately. They wanted to hear what _Teedyuscung_ had said of them, and begged me to take out the writings. I read to them what _Teedyuscung_ had said, and told them, as _Teedyuscung_ had said he would speak so loud, that all at _Allegheny_, and beyond should hear it, I would conceal nothing from them. They said, they never sent any such advice (as above mentioned), to _Teedyuscung_, nor ever sent a message at all to the government,[32] and now the _French_ were here, their captain would come to hear, and this would make disturbance. I then told them I would read the rest, and leave out that part, and they might tell the kings and captains of it, when they came together. 17th.—Early, this morning they called all the people together to clean the place, where they intended to hold the council, it being in the middle of the town. _Kushkushkee_ is divided into four towns, each at a distance from the others; and the whole consists of about ninety houses, and two hundred able warriors.