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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Account of a visit paid to the Indians in New York State

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the evening to a place called
the double cabin, 15 miles. Here we
could get neither pasture, hay, corn,
nor oats, for our horses, but having
a little oats with us, after feeding
them we tied them to stakes & c. till
morning. After partaking of
some of our own victuals we wrap-
ped ourselves in our blankets and
tryed to get some sleep on the earth-
en floor, being all the bed we could
meet with. 33 miles.

13th

We were stirring by times this morn-
ing as our bed was not inviting to
indulge nature, and 7 ½ miles we
came to a poor cabin; here we got some
oats for our horses and let them pick
a little in the woods; But we found
a great change since we left. Red-
stone
, the season is abundantly