porcupine quills, and small beads, they are
latterly getting much in the practice of wearing
hats, The dress of the Woman is much like
that of the Men save a short woollen petticoat
and a broadcloth wrapper instead of a coat.
The Women about us have a number of
corn patches interspreed through the bushes
which they tend with their hoes, they
plant the hills about 3 feet apart with
8 or 10 stalks in a hill, their activity in
hilling and weeding it is somewhat
extraordinary

27th of Sixth month

Cornplanter

being at our
House we enquired of him if he would sell us
some boards to build a House he replyed that
we might have as many as we wanted at two
Dollars per hundred and he would deliver them
at at our landing, a few days after he
sent for us to come to the Saw mill and
see the boards measured out, we immediate-
ly went and found Cornplanter and several
other Indians at the Mill. here we had a
pretty stricking instance of the generosity
of Cornplanter, for as we had told the
Indians in council at our first coming