lords of the land. I contemplated the tranquil abode
of our first parents in the garden, and felt happy for
a moment, which was succeeded by the reflection
on Jonah's gourd, which it most resembled. I felt
a necessity to breathe for the approach of that peace-
ful and blessed day, when every man shall sit under
his own vine, and fig-tree, and none shall make him
afraid.

This afternoon, two young Wyandots arrived.
They looked wild and afraid. One of them was
introduced to Gen. Lincoln, and handed him a mes-
sage in writing, importing that the several treaties
held at Fort McIntosh, Miami, Muskingum, &c.
where lands had been ceded by two or three nations
only, were not valid; as they had no right to dispose
of lands. And as for the large sums of money pro-
posed to be paid down for the country, they did not
want it; and a great many of them did not know the
use of it. Therefore, desired it might be applied,
with the proposed yearly salary, to the indemnifica-
tion of the settlers north of the Ohio. And as they
supposed they were mostly poor people, or else they
would not have settled on disputed lands; that there-
by they might be induced to move off; and make
the Ohio the boundary. For it was their land — the
country to the westward was filled up — they had no
where else to repair to, and they were determined
to lay their bones in it. As to the concessions, the
commissioners proposed to make, by giving money,
they did not want it: next, running a new line, was
but giving them a part of their own land; and as to
disclaiming the right to all their country, by virtue
of the peace made with the king, their father, they
knew they were never conquered, and it could not