Peace amongst the Indians.--Celebrations.--Worship. Exercises.--Business
of the Tribes.--Former Happiness of the Indians in time of peace
extolled.--Their Morals; Fidelity; Honesty; Chastity; Temperance. Indians
called to German Flats.--Treaty with Americans.--They are sent for by the
British Commissioners, and go to Oswego.--Promises made by those
Commissioners.--Greatness of the King of England. Reward that was paid
them for joining the British. They make a Treaty.--Bounty offered for
Scalps. Return richly dressed and equipped.--In 1776 they kill a man at
Cautega to provoke the Americans. Prisoners taken at Cherry Valley,
brought to Beard's Town; redeemed, &c.--Battle at Fort Stanwix.--Indians
suffer a great loss.--Mourning at Beard's Town.--Mrs. Jemison's care of
and services rendered to Butler and Brandt.

After the conclusion of the French war, our tribe had nothing to trouble
it till the commencement of the Revolution. For twelve or fifteen years
the use of the implements of war was not known, nor the war-whoop heard,
save on days of festivity, when the achievements of former times were
commemorated in a kind of mimic warfare, in which the chiefs and warriors
displayed their prowess, and illustrated their former adroitness, by
laying the ambuscade, surprizing their enemies, and performing many
accurate manoeuvres with the tomahawk and scalping knife; thereby
preserving and handing to their children, the theory of Indian warfare.
During that period they also pertinaciously observed the religious rites
of their progenitors, by attending with the most scrupulous exactness and
a great degree of enthusiasm to the sacrifices, at particular times, to
appease the anger of the evil deity, or to excite the commisseration and
friendship of the Great Good Spirit, whom they adored with reverence, as
the author, governor, supporter and disposer of every good thing of which