moved, and the proprietaries, ready to purchase lands, buy of one chief what belongs to another, this likewise is fraud." In regard to the lands on the Delaware, he said his people had never been

since the treaty of 1737. The boundary of the land then sold was to have gone only "as far as a man could walk in a day and a half from Nashamony creek," yet the person satisfied

He was, more bank of the river, winding

who measured the ground did not walk but ran. over, as they supposed, to follow the

in a straight line. And because the Indians had been unwilling to give up the land as far as the " walk "

whereas he went

extended, the governor sent for their cousins, the Six Nations, to come down and drive them from the land. When the Six

Nations came down, the Lenapes met them

for the purpose of

why they did not give up the land but the English made so many presents to the Six Nations that their ears were stopped. They would listen to no explanations and Canasaexplaining

;

;

had abused them, and called them women. The Six Nations had, however, given to them and the Shawanoes the x

teego

lands upon the Susquehanna and Juniatta for hunting grounds, and had so informed the governor ; but notwithstanding this the

white

men were allowed

to

go and

settle

upon those lands.

A viceroy chieftain jwho had been set over them by the Six Nations.