Five or six miles below, we landed on the west bank, and put up for the night.

June 4tii. In fhe afternoon appeared at a distance Onohoghgwage mounrain, and shewed us the end of our journey and the object of our wishes. It rained. Wet and fatigued, we arrived near night. The Indians flocked around us, and made us welcome. Our hopes were raised by favoralD-le appearances. Eut our accommodations, considering our fatigues, were not very comfortable. Our lodgings were bad, being both dirty and liard ; and our clotlies wet.

June 5*1^ To day tliere were many tiie worse for the rum that came witli us. One of our horses liurt an Indian boy ; and this raised and enraged such a party against us, as Ashley, his wife the interpreter, and the Indians at whose house we lodged, hid themselves, and would have me and Mr. Woodbridge get out of sight ; but we did not think proper to discover the least symptoms cf fear, although they tlireateued us in the most provoking and

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insulting maimer. In the afternoon came chiefs of the Onohoghgwages, and assured us that those insulting and ill-behaved Indians did not belong to them,* but were foreigners. We pointed out to them the ill effects of intemperance, and remonstrated against their permitting rum to be brought among them ; and that it Avas necessary in future it should be prohibited, or the dispensing of it regulated, in case we founded a mission and planted Christianity among them. In short, Ave now opened a treaty with them upon the affairs of our advent, and the importance of our business in every view. Having shewn our credentials, Mr. Woodbridge addressed himself in a Avell adapted speech of considerable length, to an assembly who were collected upon the occasion.