and children and may also with great ease raise many
more horses, cows, sheep, hogs and other valuable animals
than will be necessary for your own use we are also con-
fident that if you will pursue our method in the
cultivation of your lands that you will live in much
greater ease & plenty and with much less fatigue & toil
than attend hunting for a subsistence

Brothers
We are fully convinced that if you will
adopt our mode of cultivating the Earth and of raising
useful animals that you will find it to be a mode
of living not only far more plentiful and much less
fatiguing but also a mode of living much more cer-
tain and which will expose your bodies less to the
inclemences of the weather than is attendant upon hunting
it will lead you to have fixed homes—you will build
comfortable dwelling houses for yourselves, your women
and children, where you may be sheltered from the rain
from the frost and from the snow, and where you may enjoy
in plenty the reward of your labour

Brothers
In laying these things before you we have no
other motive than a desire of heart for the improvement
the bennefit and the welfare of our red brethren & therefore
it is that we speak with freedom and we hope that what
we have to say will go in at one Ear and not come out
at the other but that it will be remembered by our red
brothers, for we know that we shall not be ashamed of
what we say when in time to come you compare the things