they do not wage war save but to secure a good peace.

They return without striking a blow, withThe Seneca Iroquois offer you more than you would have believed.

out shedding blood, etc.

The Onnontagues considered their honour engaged to this meeting, and have put all sorts of machinery in motion to induce the Senecas to condescend to place their affairs in their hands. On the first day of the Council every thing was almost despaired of, and the plenipotentiaries all excited

came to see me, saying they gained nothing on the Senecas, and that up to that time they most wilwhich you and they had made them. They

lingly accepted war ; that they rejected the presents

sent me back a collection of belts, that the chiefs and warriors acted with great zeal in combating

the obstinacy of the Senecas so that having gained the Oneidas and Cayugas over to their side,

they came to high words.

Deputies, notwithstanding, succeeded one another to sound me on the

and to learm the true cause of the withdrawal of our Missionaries. Finally I told them that the^real cause was, that the displeasure which they perceived you felt, and which they also entertained at being disparaged by the Senecas, had caused them to withdraw to you,

state of affairs

until they should

have satisfied you.

At length the Onnontagues persuaded them to confide in

them and to place their affairs in their hands--that if you did not accept should unite according

to