o all your Warriours not to bargain for any Land; or if
they do, that you will not confirm such Bargains; and that this very
Affair, together with what you have done therein, may be particularly
reported to all your Nation assembled in Council.'

The _Onondago_ Chief promised to give such publick Notice; and desiring
Liberty to mend his former Speech, he proceeded:

'_BRETHREN_,

'I forgot one Circumstance: Our People who pretended to sell the Land,
demanded a Belt of _Wampum_ of the Buyers to carry to their Chiefs; and
on their declaring they had no _Wampum_, our Warriours said, they would
not answer that their Chiefs would confirm this Bargain, since they
never did any thing of this Nature without _Wampum_.'

The Governor, after a short Pause, spoke:

'_BRETHREN of the Six Nations_,

'I shall take this Opportunity to relate to you a Piece of disagreeable
News I received some Days ago in a Letter from _Le Tort_ the Indian
Trader, at _Allegheny_, who says, _That in_ May _last some_ Indians _of
the_ Taway _Nation, supposed by us to be_ Twightwees, _in their Return
from War, called and stayed sometime with the_ Shawanese; _who being
asked, and denying they had brought either Scalps or Prisoners, the_
Shawanese _suspecting them, had the Curiosity to search their Bags, and
finding two Scalps in them, that by the Softness of the Hair did not
feel like_ Indian _Scalps, they wash'd them clean, and found them to be
the Scalps of some_ Christians. _On this Discovery, the_ Twightwees _were
so much ashamed, that they stole away from their Town in the Night-time;
and coming, as they afterwards understood, to a little Village belonging
to the_ Shawanese, _they told our People that their Hearts were full of
Grief; for, as they came along the Road, they found it all bloody; and
having good Cause to believe it was made bloody with the Blood of some
of the White Brethren, they had very sorrowfully swept the Road; and
desired them to inform the Governor of_ Pensilvania _of their (the_
Twightwees) _Grief; and how they had swept the Road clean.' Le Tort_
adds, on Behalf of the _Shawanese, 'That they were much troubled and
grieved at this unfortunate Accident; and prayed as they had no Concern
in it, more than by being Instruments to discover it, their Brethren
would not blame them, nor suffer a Misunderstanding to arise between
them on this Account: They would sweep the Road clean, and wipe all the
Blood away; and desired their Breth