men women and children and told them that they had all had a full opportunity of considering what they intended to do with their land. The advantage of having Europeans among them, the riches they would thereby acquire, the peace it would establish and the propriety of having our proceedings openly discussed with all the surrounding tribes who were opposed to the sale of the land, that the sun of heaven was reflecting on all of us at this assembly and that I did not desire to have any of our meetings or boundaries defined in darkness. Talk on then my friends talk on it is not desirable