until the

British commissioners appealed to their

was overcome.

avarice that their sense of honor

The con

tract was closed by the distribution of scarlet clothes, beads, and

trinkets, in addition to which each warrior was presented a brass kettle, a suit of clothes, a gun, a tomahawk and a scalping knife,

a piece of gold, a quantity of ammunition, and a promise of a Brant was ac bounty upon every scalp he should bring in.

knowledged as a war captain, and soon after commenced his career of blood upon the borders. Meanwhile the attention of the colonists had not been entirely devoted to the Six Nations. In April, 1774, the Provincial congress of Massachusetts sent a message to the Mahicans and Wappingers at Westenhuck, apprising them of the gathering tempest, and expressing a desire to cultivate a good understand In reply, Captain Solomon Wa-haun-wan-wauing with them.

meet visited Boston on the eleventh of April, and delivered the following speech : " Brothers :

We have heard you speak by your letter

; we we now make answer. You remember when you first came over the

thank you for it ;

" Brothers

:

I was great and you was very little, very small. then took you in for a friend, and kept you under my arms, so that no one might injure you ; since that time we have ever

great waters, ^

been true friends ; there has never been any quarrel between us.

But now our conditions are changed. This See Life of Mary Jamison. pamphlet was written in 1823, and published by James D. Bemis, of CanandaiShe was taken a captive gua, N. Y.