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150 Deputies, commanded them to leave the place within half an hour, or abide the consequences, and Captain White Eyes, who had been the principle bearer of the Message, was, after first being insulted, told: "that if he [put?] any value on his head, he must be gone instantly."*

  In consequence of this insult to the Nations (for the Chiefs & Council considered it in no other light) they went to Pittsburg to lay the case before their Agents for the information of Congress, who advised them, together with all peaceable disposed Indians, to come under their protection; but as sad experience had taught them, by the Murder of the Canestoga Indians in the very Town of Lancaster,-- and the narrow escape of the Christian Indians in the City of Philadelphia, from being murdered by the Paxton boys: no Chief would venture to make this proposal known to his People. As to the safety of the Missionaries, Government had advised those thro their Agent to take refuge at Pittsburg; but they would rather suffer whatever might befall them, than desert a People committed to their care, and especially when these were most in want of advice and consolation. Altho

• see unclear history Part III. Chap. VI.

Note It not being the design of the writer of this narrative here to discuss on the propensity or impropriety of the conduct of the Governor to those Messengers he refers the reader to Heckewelders history of Indian Nations Chap. XXI. headed "Peace Messengers".