white 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 20^th of June. He is 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 returns. We are &c B. Lincoln, B. Randolph, } Commissioners. T. 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 searching General Lincoln's trunk the belt of the hostile Indians, acceding 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 white new belts, which were intended for our use. These with what white Wampum is on hand, in strings, M^r Parish can bring to us with as much more as will make up 80,000 or 100,000. For if there should be a surplus we cannot make a more acceptable present to the Indians than Wampum; for this reason and also for the purpose of ensuring a full supply we have continued our request to Major Craig to send us 40 or 50,000. The letters to Major Craig will be sent by some Indian Runners, whom Parish will dispatch from Buffalo Creek, to the Cornplanters settlement; where they may be delivered to the Runners who are well acquainted with the route. M^r Parish the bearer of this says he can reach Philadelphia in 8 or 10 days, and will return in as many more; we pray you to give him all needful dispatch. The Doctors Medicine Chest was left at Philadelphia; It seems that on his way he has bought a pound of bark and a few other articles of small account. Perhaps as the treaty may now be postponed to a later season than was expected, it may be expedient for M^r Parish to bring a pound of bark, and such other articles as the Physicians you consulted shall recommend, and Parish can conveniently bring. We are Sir Yours &c B. Lincoln, B. Randolph, } Commissioners T. Pickering. The Commissioners having discharged twenty of their batteaumen they gave the following order for the residue of their pay. To General Knox. Sir, Niagara 27^th May 1793. As a less sum was put into the hands of the Commissioners