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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Journey into Indian Country

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a Gun, and then it takes a great deal of
money to get a new one, we have very
few Hoes, and Axes, and such things amon-
-gst us, and we are not able to get them.

Brothers, I will go along with you to Canan
darque

, and there we will get matters settled
about the Mill, and bring it back to your
young men in Writing.

Brothers, this is all I have now got to say
we will now Shake hands.

At the close of this speech we expressed a few words
more, representing among other things the un-
-reasonableness of their present practice, of
their Mothers, Wives, and Sisters, working
all day in the fields, and in the Woods, with
their hoes, and axes, whilst they themselves
were at the same time playing with their
Bows and Arrows &c recommending to them
to begin our way by early setting their boys
to business, taking them out to how Corn &c
thus by early habitting them to Work, their
Minds will be turned to it, business will
become familier, and they will not think
hard of it. and as they expressed the White
People were rich and had plenty, we let them