Past of this day, some of our Company were
employ’d in baking of bread, & other domestic prepara-
tions; as we are now wholy our own cooks & c. living on
the provisions which we brought on our horses from
Pittsburgh & Franklin, & which we have sometimes
looked upon with some serious thoughtfulness, as ap-
pearing a scanty allowance for the time set for the
arrival of our boat; and the more especially, as we
were early inform’d of the great scarcity of corn a-
mongst the Indians, occasion’d, as they say by an
overflow of the River last spring, & an early frost
in the fall; but our anxiety on this account, is now
much removed, by Cornplanter’s desiring us, when
we got out of bread, to let him know, & he would let
us have more, & giving us to understand that he had
several barrels of flour, which he brought from
Pittsburgh.

The Indians, being most of this day steadily
in private council concerning our business, sever-
al times sent their deputies to ask particular
questions relative thereto; one of which was. How
could they learn to plough, & do what we proposed,
seeing