to remark, that we have
found, since we came to this
Place, serious Occasion for
the Necessity of Friends, both
in a collective and private
Capacity, being scrupulously
guarded in the Letters they
send to these people; for we
find them very ingenious
in construing them to their
own advantage; and they
appear to hold them little
inferior, in point of Obligation
to the most absolute Contrasts.

14th.

Attended a general Coun-
cil of the Oneida’s

, at their