and I can see the sun shine clear over us." Delivered four strings.
He said further, "As you took so much pains, and came a great way through the bushes, I, by this string, clean you from the sweat, and clean the dust out of your throat, so that you may speak what you have to say from your brethren, the English, and our uncles, the Six Nations, to your cousins, I am ready to hear."
Then Petiniontonka, the Cayuga chief, took the belt with eight diamonds,[1] and said;
"Cousins, take notice of what I have to say; we let you know what agreement we have made with our brethren, the English. We had almost slipt and dropt the chain of friendship with our brethren, the English; now we let you know that we have renewed the peace and friendship with our brethren, the English; and we have made a new agreement with them. We see that you have dropt the peace and friendship with them. We desire you would lay hold of the covenant, we have made with our brethren, the English, and be strong. We likewise take the tomahawk out of your hands, that you received from the white people; use it no longer; fling the tomahawk away; it is the white people's; let them use it among themselves; it is theirs, and they are of one colour; let them fight with one another, and do you be still and quiet in Kushkushking. Let our grandchildren, the Shawanese, likewise know of the covenant, we established with our friends, the English, and also let all other nations know it."
Then he explained to them the eight diamonds, on the
belt, signifying the five united nations, and the three
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- ↑ Diamond figures, formed by beads of wampum, of different colours.—[C. T.?]
