respecting their Circumstan-
ces, that we would leave the
Substance of what we had
to say to them, relative to the
Business in writing; that
their Interpreter might read
and explain it to them when
they should get all together:
This being agreed to the Coun-
cil was opened, Abraham Ephraim Web-
ster

a white man, and friend
to them, and who had lived ma-
ny years amongst them, being
our Interpreter: We let them
know the nature of our Bu-
siness, and endeavoured to press
on the necessity of a