Joseph Johnson immediately put a stop
to the selling of liquor and informed us
that he and his men had abstained
from the use of distilled spirits in their
surveying buisness last summer as it
was the practice of other surveyors in the
Holland employ, and found they were
better without it. He agreed with a young
man who was sober and we were in-
formed would not get drunk to pilot
us tomorrow to Cornplanters Village he
was a good countenanced Indian and
appeared pleased with the charged as-
singned him 15 miles.

17th

A pleasant day set off with our Indian
guide who could not talk english nor
understand any that we know of, in less
than 2 miles we crossed the Conowongo a
beautiful stream which flowed along
with a gentle current. We thought it