Carolina after having discharged the Embassy committed to him This I considered as I still do, as a sensible disappointment because the fidelity of that Chief, Joyned to his Superior Capacity gave me good hopes of receiving a Circumstantial Accot of all Matters at his return, which I could not Expect so perfect from the rest of his party ; -- After waiting Some Months More, I found that his party who had taken shipping at Chas Town were Landed at Philadelphia, and in Feby the Greatest part of them with many others came to my House, here I found that Anawaske, the Next in Authority to Tho^ King had died on shipboard and that another was so Afflicted with a

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lameness that he could not as yet make me a Visit. I was therefore obliged to Content myself with such Accot. as the Young Men who survived could give, who after laying before me a Considerable Number of Pipes, belts &ca began to repeat the proceedings of Tho^ King? first with the Shawanese at Fort Pitt on his way to Scioto, where these people assured him that the Wamaghtojios, w*^ shortly send Depy^ to the 6 Nat^ & myself to sollicit a Continuance of Friendship. They next recounted that upon Tho^ Kings arrival at Scioto he assembled all the Nations, and first addressed the Shawanese whom he upbraided for retiring so far down the Ohio, & for Confederating with people unmindfull of their Engagements, and in short repeated to each of the Nations faithfully all that he had been charged with by the 6 Nat^. & myself. -- The Shawanese answered, That the 6 Nations had long seemed to neglect them,& to disregard the Promise they formerly made of giving them the Lands between the Ohio & the Lakes : That thus distressed they went on board of their Canoes determined to go whither soever fortune sho'^ drive them, but were Stopped (many Years since) at Scioto by the 6.