much partiality depraved in their morals than we are; and we judge from their doetrine by the badness of their lives." In a word, we ind the Christians much more

It is plain that this Indian chief's speech Latinized in the good Swede's hands; but if the words even was very much approached being a true presentation of what hc said, it is wonderful indeed.

In 1721 His Excellency Sir William Keith, Bart., Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania, went with an cscort of cighty horsemen to Conestoga, and spent several days in making a treaty with the representatives of the live Nations, " the In- dians of Conestoga and their friends." He was entertained at "Captain Civility's cabin." them to give his "very kind love and the love of all onr peo- ple to your kings and to all their people," IHe invited them to visit him in lPhiladelphia, saying, "We can you and make you more weleome. People always receive their friends best at their own homes." He then took out a corona When he left them, he desired provide better for tion medal of the King, and presented it to the Indian in these wOrds: "That our children when we are dead may not forget these things, but keep this treaty between us in perpetual re- membrance, I here deliver to you a picture in gold, bearing the image of my great master, the King of all the English. And when you return home, I charge you to deliver this piece into the hands of the first man or greatest chief of all the Five Na tions, whom you call Kannygoodk, to be laid up and kept as a token to our children's children that an entire and lasting friendship is now established forever between the English in this country and the great Five Nations."

At this time the village of Conestoga was deseribed as lying "about seventy miles west of Pliladelphia. The land therea- bout being exeeeding rich, it is now surrounded with divers fine plantations and farms, where they raise quantities of wheat, barley, flax, and hemp, without the help of any dnng."