that enabled us to stay, which made
us so anxious to return. I informed
him, when I left home, I expected to have
returned in about 40 days, that it was now
near 50 days, and if we went by Oneida

to see the Indians there, which we proposed,
it would take near 30 days more before we
got could get home, that our Circumstances as
to money was not in the way, for we had
plenty. he said he had left home on pub-
-lic Business, expecting to have return-
-ed in 50 or 60 days, and it had taken him
near a Year before he had got back, and
that he had found it his duty to sacrafice
privet conveniency to public good;
and he would have us do so too:
we let him know, the business we came
about appeared to be agreeable settled
to both their and our Minds, that this o-
-ther business, was something we knew
nothing of about untill since among
them, that we would have been will-
-ing to have set with them in Coun-
-cil, tho did not know we could be of
any use service to them, and that the