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Washington had sent Captains Pasteur & Prior on good [undecipherable]; and [undecipherable] there was any thing in the former's heart, he intreated him to speak it out [undecipherable] that the [undecipherable], Foxes, and others with him, had never taken up the Tomahawk to strike the Americans; though invited to it by the <s>Indians</s> English at Detroit, who had likewise invited several other nations - that perhaps the English would come upon his Lands, and on the lands of red people with him, and they might possibly kill him - but he would [undecipherable] his lands to Congress to protect - that the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] are afraid to go Congress, but that he would address a letter to Captains  Pasteur and [undecipherable] to inform Congress of the good intentions of those Indians, and hoped that he and Captains Prior would take pity on his people - that should they be hereafter invited by General Washington to go see him, they would throw away their bodies to go - That the Spaniards and other white people are now fighting among themselves, and that the Tomahawk has been offered to his and various other nations, but that their answers ever been "Let them fight their own battles, and us keep our lands in peaces." - that he intreated Captains Pasteur and Prior to make their hearts glad on going home, by giving the presents of goods, guns and ammunition" (Here he presented Captain Pasteur with five short strings of white wampum, bound together at one end with green ribbon, and proceeded that as they passed the Spaniards in the route hither, the Spaniards told them they were fools, they would get nothing from the Americans - not even a knife - but that notwithstanding he [undecipherable] Captain Pasteur would take pity on them, and as to himself, he was very poor -