me and went away. I then addressed another principal man in the
same manner, who sa;d he was willing to hear me. After some time, I followed the
my
king into his house, and discourse to him : but he
talking,
and
left
renewed
declined the affair to another,
who appeared to be a rational man.
He
and talked very warmly near a quarter of an hour together; he enquired why I desired the Indians to become began
OF HUDSON'S RIVER.
"
in New ware, at which place, and at Crossweeksung, Jersey, His towards the sea," he met with considerable success.
John Brainerd, about the same time, established a mission at Bethel, New Jersey, where he drew together a per
brother,
manent congregation. But the changes of this period were not confined to the Mabicans and Lenapes. It is said that in 1748, a band of chief sachem, White, put them fugitive Nanticokes^ under their selves
under the protection of the Six Nations
on the Delaware. 2
at
Conestoga
If the Moravian missionaries were correctly
informed, their presence was a source of weakness rather than Loskiel states that they " instructed of strength to their allies. the Delawares and
Iroquois in preparing a peculiar kind
of
poison," which was capable of infecting whole townships and tribes with "disorders as pernicious as the plague," and that they " Their history, nearly destroyed their own nation by it." until their final disappearance in the west, was not particularly distinguished, perhaps for the reason stated by Loskiel.