Wherefore I wish there could be an Addition made to" it, I shall also send up Imediately to call the Six Nations down, again the time mentioned, bat should Your Excelly not be here at that time, it would be a great disappointment j As they Come down, they will require a great deal of Provisions being scant at home, I fear if they are not Supplyed before that time with some Provisions, they may do a great deal of damage to the poor few Inhabitants remaining on their Plantations, which would intirely ruin them. I would Acquaint Your Excelly of one thing, that is whatever Presents you give the Indians now, will be to no purpose, if there be not an Act made before that time, to iorbid all persons whatsoever to Buy or Exchange any Arms, Amunition, Clothing kc"". from any Indians of the Five Nations, or from any Indian in Alliance with them, or sell them any Rum or other Spiritous Liquors to the East of Oneida Lake, under pain of Suffering a Year and a Days Imprisonment, and a fine besides of ^£30. -- If that is so, the Indians will reap a Benefit by getting such a Present, but otherwise none at all, I am sorry to find by Your Excelly* Letter, that there is no great hopes

SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON. 621

of an Expedition which I doubt will be the ruin of this part of the Countr)' intirely, and the means of giving the Six Nations a worse opinion of us than we can imagine, & all their AlHes also, and I shall now have the greatest difficulty that ever I mett with, to reconcile the Indians, when they come to hear that we are to do notliing, wherefore shall long much for Your Excelly^ coming up, as I assure You Sir they all do.