“Brethren, being come here to see you, I perceive your bodies are all stained with blood, and observe tears and sorrows in your eyes: With this string I clean your body from blood, and wipe and anoint your eyes with the healing oil, so that you may see your brethren clearly. And as so many storms have blown since we last saw one another, and we are at such a distance from you, that you could not rightly hear us as yet, I, by this string, take a soft feather, and with that good oil, our grandfathers used, open and clear your ears, so that you may both hear and understand what your brethren have to say to you. And by these strings I clear your throat from the 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_,[100] 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, they 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 shall be presented, to keep every thing private from the eyes and ears of the _French_.” A string. “Brethren, we received your message by _Pesquitomen_ and _Frederick Post_, and thank you for the care you have taken of our messenger of peace, and that you have put him in your bosom, and protected him against our enemy, _Onontio_, and his children, and sent him safe back to our council fire, by the same man, that received him from us.” A string.