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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Visit to Oneida and Other Tribes of Indians

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worldly Advantage to ourselves,
and that we were desirous
they should endeavour
to still and quiet their
Minds, as well as their
Bodies, that they might
be in a proper Situation
to hear and understand, if
we should have any thing
to say to them: this seems
to be too little understood
by these people generally
where we have been; they
appear hardly to know how
to compose themselves many
Minutes at a Time, unless we