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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Visit to Oneida and Other Tribes of Indians

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with the money which they
received in this month; but
when they received our Letter,
they thought it not necessary
to lay out their own money for
that purpose; intimating that
they supposed we would find
them Teams and such things:

We were deeply affected with
the unreasonableness of their
Expectations; as well as their
extreme Indolence; or rather
haughty Contempt of any
Thing that bore the name of
Labour; together with their
apparent utter Insensibility
of any thing that was said
to them, on the necessity of