extent of the treaty which they had entered into with the people of the
states, the year before, and that they should not violate it by taking up
the hatchet against them.

The Commissioners continued their entreaties without success, till they
addressed their avarice, by telling our people that the people of the
states were few in number, and easily subdued; and that on the account of
their disobedience to the King, they justly merited all the punishment
that it was possible for white men and Indians to inflict upon them; and
added, that the King was rich and powerful, both in money and subjects:
That his rum was as plenty as the water in lake Ontario: that his men were
as numerous as the sands upon the lake shore:--and that the Indians, if
they would assist in the war, and persevere in their friendship to the
King, till it was closed, should never want for money or goods. Upon this
the Chiefs concluded a treaty with the British Commissioners, in which
they agreed to take up arms against the rebels, and continue in the
service of his Majesty till they were subdued, in consideration of certain
conditions which were stipulated in the treaty to be performed by the
British government and its agents.

As soon as the treaty was finished, the Commissioners made a present to
each Indian of a suit of clothes, a brass kettle, a gun and tomahawk, a
scalping knife, a quantity of powder and lead a piece of gold, and
promised a bounty on every scalp that should be brought in. Thus richly
clad and equipped, they returned home, after an absence of about two
weeks, full of the fire of war, and anxious to encounter their enemies.
Many of the kettles which the Indians received at that time are now in use
on the Genesee Flats.

Hired to commit depredations upon the whites, who had given them no