answer to your Message, you have also seen the present
which he, seat you as a mark of his Friendship and to welcome
you to this Province, We are now to Congratulate you in his
name on the Success which you have lately had ag^st his and
your Enemies. He was exceedingly pleased with the news,
and for the Service you have already done he has ordered us
to give you these Goods; (pointing to the large parcell)
Bretheren now you have found where the Enemy is to be met
with We hope you will not suffer them to escape but on the
Contrary that you will pursue and overtake them and destroy
till none of them remain to inspire you with such a Resolution
your Brother the Governor sends you this String, gave a
String of black Wampum.
After a few Minutes Wahachey rose up and said he had
heard good words & then steping up on one of the Seats that -
were round the Table he harangued his People a Consider-
able time, repeating (as we were told by the Interpreter) the

substance of what We had said and Concluding with an
Exhortation to the young Men to look on the English and on
the People of this Province in particular as their Friends and
Bretheren to fight bravely for them against the Enemies that
had attacked them, and to entitle themselves to the present
that had been promised as a reward for their Valour. They
then proceeded to divide the Goods and We retired having
first desired the Commandant of the Fort to order Sentries to
the Door to prevent the Intrusion of any White People.
An Account being brought to the Fort in the Evening that
several Moccoson Tracks had been discovered a few Miles off
on the South side of Potomack River and' the Indians being
informed thereof they sent to us early in the Morning of the
22^d Instant saying they were very impatient to pursue the.
Indians that had as it was Supposed made the abovementioned
Tracks and that they hoped We would meet them as soon as
possible and hear the reply that they intended to make to their
Brother the Governor. We immediately complied with their
request and as soon as We were seated the Chief expressed
himself in the following Words. " I am now going to reply to
the Governor of Maryland but as I do not understand making
Beads I shall send him nothing but Paper." Brother while I
was coming from home my thoughts were very bad. I was
enraged against the Enemy who have been Murthering my
Bretheren but now I have been out and killed some of them I
am better Satisfied in my mind. My Brother the Governor of
this Province has sent us this Belt, (holding in his Hand the
Belt that was first given him the Day before) to welcome us
hither and to open a Path from my Country, This shall be
done; at present it is only a small Track but I will make it a