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    This spirited address of White Eyes had the desired effect; all declared that they would wait untill the 10 days were expired, and many added; that they never would go to war against the American People, unless they had him (White Eyes) for their leader.
    It so happened, that the Brethren in Bethlehem towards the latter end of February of this Year, (1778) feeling an uncommon anxiety for the fate of the Missionaries and Christian Indians on Muskingum, they not having recieved a single Letter, or obtained any account of them for the last 6 Months, they applied to the writer of this Narrative, who in the last summer had come to Bethlehem on a Visit, to proceed to Pittsburg for the purpose; and if when there it was believed to be practicable and safe, even to repair, to his post at Lichtenau; to which he readily agreeing, brother John Shabork? who had been prevented from returning to his family at Gnadenhutten ever since August last, would cheerfully accompany him.
    Some circumstances at that time, making it necessary for us to be furnished with a passport from the highest authority, we waited on the President of Congress, Henry Laurence Esq. and? also on the Secretary of War, Horatio Gates, who at that time were sitting at Yorktown Pennsylvania; both which Gentlemen spoke very higly of the laudable undertaking the Brethren were engaged in, of propogating the Gospel among the Indians, for the purpose