I told him I should send De Couagne Out with him to the village to bring back the Stolen Horses and get all the News.

Sep''. lOtb. Wabacommegat arrived in the Evening

Sep'''. IV^. He came to visit me and told me he could not

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speake to me as he Expected Three more Canoes that clay, but as soon as they shoukl come He wold tell me all the News, if I wold mine.

Pkoceedings of a Congress held at Niagara 12"» Sep^ 1767

With Wiibacomniegat and other Messesaga Chiefs; and some Chiefs of the Chippawas.

( Normand MacLeod Esq'" Comi'y of Indian affairs \ John Poison Lieu* of the Royal Americans.

Interpret" Jean Baptist De Couagne

After the useual Compliments Wabacomegat Chief of the Messesaga shew'd the same strings of vvampom I had formerly given Him, desiring He should let me know all the News that should be amongst them, and said that in obedience to my request, he had now come in ; to tell me all the News he had, He then told me that the Poutawatamis of S' Joseph were still drunk and doing mischief wherever they w^ent to, that the Saguina Indians had killed a Young Huron that the Saguinas had sent a Belt to the Hurons to try to make a reconitiation for that murder, that the Hurons had receiv'd the Belt but would make no answer to it. That the Indians about Detroit had very bad harts, but whether their bad designs were against the white People or some Indian Nations he could not pretend to tell. That the Shawanese had sent bad Belts amongst the upper Nations, but the Chippawas and Messenger did not agree, When they were just about accepting of the Belt, and going to shake hands some diffrenee arose and the Chippawas refus'd the Belts, and the Messenger carry'd them away again, Wasson was the Chippawa Chief that refused the Belts.