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Cherokee Indians who escorted us to the Fort and when we
came near the Gate drew up in a Rank and saluted us,
Wahachey their Chief then invited us to smoak a Pipe with
him, and some of the Warriors that were in greatest Esteem,
on our accepting his Invitation he bade us welcome, and
expressed great Satisfactiorj at our Arrival, he afterwards
enquired how long we had been on the Road, and what the
Distance was between Fort Frederick and the Place where
the Governor resided, when we informed them that we had
performed the Journey in three Days they seemed to be
surprized that they had not received an answer to their
Message sooner, and observed that many Days had elapsed
since your Excellency must have received it, we told them
that when they sent their Message you happened to be far
from home and that you had been obliged after your Return
home to send to distant Parts of the province for a Quantity
of Goods to make them a present of, by Reason that a
proper Assortment was not to be had in Annapolis nor in any
one Part of the Province with this Answer they seemed to
be well satisfied and only asked whether the Goods were yet
collected and brought up, we told them they may be expected
in a Day or two, and that whenever they came we should
immediately advise them thereof, the Chief afterwards asked
some Questions about the Treaty which he said he had heard
the Governor of Pensilvania was then holding with the
Shawanese and Delawares at Lancaster, and expressed a
good Deal of Surprize at the Pensilvanians treating as
Friends and making Presents to a People with whom they
were at open war, by whom they had been so cruelly used,
and against whom the English had been and were still sol-
liciting their (the Cherokees) Assistance; finding that what
had been drop't about that Treaty had made an ill Impression
on their Minds, we intimated that the Affair had been mis-
represented to them for that none but some of the six Na-
tions, and of certain Tribes of the Shawanese and Delawares
who were in Amity with the English, and who disapproved
of the others Conduct were come to the Treaty of which they
had heard. The Chiefs soon after ordered some of their
young Men to bring down the two Indian Prisoners which
they had taken, and by way of Compliment obliged them to
parade before us, and to sing their Death Songs. The next
Day we invited the Chief and the principal Warriors to dine
with us, and after Dinner the Interpreter Captain Pearis
told them he understood that their Brother the Governors'
Present would be up the next Morning, and that he had made
a considerable Addition to it as a Reward for the Services
they had done in destroying four and taking two of the
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