hurts them, and the less they get the better for them.
It is, therefore, evident, that in proportion to their
intercourse with the whites, they have increased in
treachery, fraud, drunkenness, and licentiousness of
every kind; and appear, at present, not unlikely to
be a rod prepared for our close chastisement.

Being in their nature, or by habit, unfeeling and
ferocious, I have often in this journey, had my feel-
ings wounded, by seeing old gray-headed women,
carrying heavy burdens of skins, venison, brooms,
matchcoats, &c. with large drops of sweat rolling
from their aged brows; when several sprightly young
and middle-aged men, went lightly on before them,
with nothing to carry but their clothes, tomahawk,
and scalping knife, dangling by their thigh.

Last evening, I had an account from a man
who came from the Glades up the Miami-of-the-lake,
that the Creek and Cherokee Indians passed through
the Delaware towns there, and produced a piece of
tobacco died red, which was received as the decla-
ration of war against the United States — that the
white prisoners were very numerous amongst the
Indians — and that, at the Rapids, as he came along,
he saw a beautiful woman, well dressed, just brought
in.

This morning, a number of Oneida Indians came
to our lodgings, and informed, that two of their
number had just come from the Rapids, and brought
tidings, that it was reported there, that Wayne's
army was advancing, and large numbers of the In-
dians had left the Council, to go to defend their
towns. They sent to the Oneidas to repair to their
assistance, which they were resolved not to comply
with. Which determination, we endeavored to