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such daring language, to so proud and powerful a body as the 6 Nations, combined were, in comparison to them; while others were sattisfied of his proceedings, having long wishd to resume their ancient station and Character, among the Indian Nations, so clandestinely wrested from them, by the Ancestors of these very People. The circumstance was however the cause of a division taking place among them, in which the Monseys took the lead. These pretended [strikethrough: to these fears] apprehensions, that the 6 Nations one would resent the liberty White Eyes had taken, and made this a pretence, of withdrawing themselves from the Councils of the Turtle tribes, and joining themselves to the Wolf Tribe. Nor did the Monsey Chief Newalike, rest, untill he had succeeded, in detaching a number of their Tribe from the Christian Indians at Schonbrun, who had taken it for granted, that their Chief was [strikethrough: in some search] secretly acquainted with some evil, which would befall the Delaware Nation, and therefore wished to remove from them danger. These (the Monseys) retiring nearer to Lake Erie, took care to have the unclear informed, that they did not approve of what Captain White Eyes had said. And Capt. Pipe at the head of his Tribe, wangled to see a breach made, of which White Eyes was to bear the blame. Pipe was an artful cunning

• This is the same Capt. Pipe, whom Col. Bouquet in 1764 kept as a hostage at Fort Pitt?.