whole Wampum, it will suffice. With regard to the Interpreters for the Delaware and Shawanee languages we repeat our request that they may be engaged and forwarded immediately. We expect M^r Parish will return from Philadelphia in twenty days — at farthest on the 28^th of June. Beg to send some Indian Runners with our letter to you. We pray you to give them all needful dispatch, and the provisions necessary on their return. We are &c B. Lincoln, B. Randolph, } Commissioners. J. Pickering Letter to General Knox Secretary at War Niagara 27^th May 1793 Sir, The letter addressed to you which is enclosed, was as you will see intended to go by the way of Pittsburg, but on reaching General Simcoe's hands the belt of the hostile Indians, according to the treaty, and that sent by the five nations on the same occasion, which in our instructions you say are herewith delivered to us, are not found: they must be still at your Office. Neither have we the whalbone belts which were intended for our use. There with what White [undecipherable] Wampum is on hand, in plenty. M^r Parish can bring to us with as much more as will make up 42000 or 100,000. For if there should be a surplus we cannot make a more acceptable present to the Indians than