As to what relates to the Friendship established between the Government of _Pensylvania_ and your Nations, I will take another Day to speak to you upon it.
_To enforce what had been said, the_ Governor _laid down a Belt of Wampum_; _upon which the_ Indians _gave the_ Yo-hah[5].
After a short Pause, the Governor ordered the Interpreter to tell the _Indians_, that as they had greatly exceeded their appointed Time for meeting the Commissioners, he recommended to them to use all the Expedition possible in giving their Answer to what had been said, that they might forthwith proceed to treat with the respective Commissioners on the Business they came about.
Then _Canassatego_ repeated to the Interpreter the Substance of what the Governor had spoke, in order to know if he had understood him right (a Method generally made use of by the _Indians_) and when the Interpreter told him he had taken the true Sense, _Canassatego_ proceeded to return the Thanks of the _Six Nations_ for the Governor's kind Advice, promising to follow it as far as lay in their Power; but as it was their Custom when a Belt was given to return another, they would take Time till the Afternoon to provide one, and would then give their Answer.
[Footnote 3: This was allowed, at a Conference had by the Governor with the Commissioners, to be a just State of the Transactions preceding the Treaty.]
[Footnote 4: The two preceding Paragraphs were allowed by the Commissioners of _Virginia_, whilst they were at _Philadelphia_, to be very proper to be spoken by the Governor of _Pensylvania_ at the Opening of the Treaty; but taking up an Opinion, from what passed at the first friendly Interview with the _Indians_, that they would not make any Claim upon Lands within the Government of _Virginia_, the Governor consented to decline speaking them in the Presence of the _Indians_.]
[Footnote 5: The _Yo-hah_ denotes Approbation, being a loud Shout or Cry, consisting of a few Notes pronounced by all the _Indians_ in a very musical Manner, in the Nature of our Huzza's.]
In the C o u r t-H o u s e at _Lancaster, June_ 25, 1744. _P. M._
The Honourable _G E O R G E T H O M A S_, Esq; Governor, &c. The Honourable the Commissioners of _Virginia_. The Honourable the Commissioners of _Maryland_. The Deputies of the _Six Nations_. _Conrad Weiser_, Interpreter.