House.--Wantonness of the Shawnees.--Moves up the Sandusky.--Meets her
Brother from Ge-nish-a-u.--Her Husband goes to Wiishto, and she sets out
for Genishau in company with her Brothers.--They arrive at
Sandusky.--Occurrences at that place.--Her Journey to Genishau, and
Reception by her Mother and Friends.

In the spring, when Thomas was three or four moons [months] old, we
returned from Sciota to Wiishto, and soon after set out to go to Fort
Pitt, to dispose of our fur and skins, that we had taken in the winter,
and procure some necessary articles for the use of our family.

I had then been with the Indians four summers and four winters, and had
become so far accustomed to their mode of living, habits and dispositions,
that my anxiety to get away, to be set at liberty, and leave them, had
almost subsided. With them was my home; my family was there, and there I
had many friends to whom I was warmly attached in consideration of the
favors, affection and friendship with which they had uniformly treated me,
from the time of my adoption. Our labor was not severe; and that of one
year was exactly similar, in almost every respect, to that of the others,
without that endless variety that is to be observed in the common labor of
the white people. Notwithstanding the Indian women have all the fuel and
bread to procure, and the cooking to perform, their task is probably not
harder than that of white women, who have those articles provided for
them; and their cares certainly are not half as numerous, nor as great. In
the summer season, we planted, tended and harvested our corn, and
generally had all our children with us; but had no master to oversee or
drive us, so that we could work as leisurely as we pleased. We had no
ploughs on the Ohio; but performed the whole process of planting and
hoeing with a small tool that resembled, in some respects, a hoe with a
very short handle.