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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Notes of a Journey taken by Elisha Tyson and James Gillingham on a Visit to some Indians in the neighbourhood of Fort Wayne

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The Indians are still drunk & little
prospect of doing any business with
them about nine o Clock the Indians that
had come in came together except Wapa-
-kee who was too drunk the five Medals was so
much intoxicated with divers others,
that we concluded it would not do
to pretend to treat with them & but
just to come together & inform them
that we were sorry that they had been
drinking so much as to be unfit to talk
with at Present but would meet
them tomorrow morning when if they
were still drunk we would go away
without having any public talk with
them -- The five Medals made reply
that we might speak, as the Potowa-
-tomies were the only people that
were drunk & that they were sober
enough to listen to what we