“Brother, it is good that you have stayed so long with us; we love to see you, and wish to see you here longer; but since you are so desirous to go, you may set off to morrow: _Pisquetumen_ has brought you here, and he may carry you home again: you have seen us, and we have talked a great deal together, which we have not done for a long time before. Now, Brother, we love you, but cannot help wondering why the _English_ and _French_ do not make up with one another, and tell one another not to fight on our land.” I told them, “Brother, if the _English_ told the _French_ so a thousand times, they never would go away. Brother, you know so long as the world has stood there has not been such a war. You know when the French lived on the other side, the war was there, and here we lived in peace. Consider how many thousand men are killed, and how many houses are burned since the _French_ lived here; if they had not been here it would not have been so; you know we do not blame you; we blame the _French_; they are the cause of this war; therefore, we do not come to hurt you, but to chastise the _French_.” They told me, that at the great council, held at _Onondago_, among the _Five Nations_, before the war began (_Conrad Weiser_ was there, and wrote every thing down) it was said to the _Indians_ at the _Ohio_, that they should let the _French_ alone there, and leave it entirely to the _Five Nations_; the _Five Nations_ would know what to do with them. Yet soon after two hundred _French_ and _Indians_ came and built _Fort Duquesne_. King _Beaver_ and _Shingas_ spoke to _Pisquetumen_. “Brother, you told us that the Governor of _Philadelphia_ and _Teedyuscung_ took this man out of their bosoms, and put him into your bosom, that you should bring him here; and you have brought him here to us; and we have seen and heard him; and now we give him into your bosom, to bring him to the same place again, before the Governor; but do not let him quite loose; we shall rejoice when we shall see him here again.” They desired me to speak to the Governor, in their behalf, as follows: “Brother, we beg you to remember our oldest brother, _Pisquetumen_, and furnish him with good cloathes, and reward him well for his trouble; for we shall look upon him when he comes back.” 7th.—When we were ready to go, they began to council which course we should go, to be safest; and then they hunted for the horses, but could not find them; and so we lost that day’s journey.