to me ‘till now you are come:
I wish I was young, then I
would do what you say direct-
ly, and I will go and see how
your Friends work at Oneida

,
every two or three Days, &
tell our young Men how you
do: He afterwards made
a moving and weighty Speech
to the Indians in his own
Language; the weight of which
was sensibly felt, even, by us
who did not understand a
word of what he said; and we
afterwards understood was re-
markably so by them; they
having never heard the like
from him before.