one after another, without they wero very grave, and spoke, jarring. Some of the most esteemed of their any heat or speak in their conneils."

When asked why they suffered the women to spcak, they replied that "some women were wiser than some men." It women was said that they had not for many years done anything with- out the advice of a certain aged and grave woman, who was al ways present at their couneils. The interpreter said that she was an empress, and that they gave much heed to what she said. This wise queen of Conestoga looked with great favor on the Quakers, the interpreter said, because they "did not come to buy or sell, or get gain;" but came "in love and re- spect" to then, "and desired their well-doing, bollh here and hereafter." Two nations at this time were represented in this Conestoga band-tbe Senecas and the Shawanese.

The next year the governor himself, anxious to preserve their inalienable good-will, and to prevent their being seduced by emissaries from the French, went himsclf to visit them. On this occasion onc of the chicfs made a spcech, still pre- served in the old records, which contains this passage:"Father, we suffer the mouse to play; when the woods we fear not; when the leaves are dis- we are uneasy; when a cloud obscures your brilliant sun, our eyes feel dim; but when the rays appear, they give great heat lo the body and joy to the beart. Treachery darkens the chain of friendship; but truth makes it brighter we love quiet; aro rustled by the wind, turbed in ambush, than eyer. This is the peace we desire."

A few years later a Swedish missionary visited them, and preached them a sermon on original sin and the necessity of a mediator. Wvhen he had finished, an Indian chief rose and re to him; both discourses beiug given through plied The Swede is said to have been so an interpret- impressed with the In dian's reasoning that, after returning to Sweden, he wrote out his own sermon and the Indian's reply in the best Latin at his er.