6 pouches containing string and belts of wampum. The wampum represented the peace offering. The Indians present were Kiastrula. chief of the Senecas, with fifteen warriors, Cus- taloga, chief of the Wolf-Delaw ares, Beaver, chief of the Turkey tribe, with twenty warriors, and Keiffiwantchtha, chief of the • ? Shawanese and six warriors. Kuyafhula. Beaver. Custologa and Turtle Heart were speakers for the tribes. The sum and substance of their addresses consisted of excuses -■ / for their late treachery. They threw the - 4 blame on the rashness of their young men, - and the tribes living west of them. The - 1 savages agreed to given up all their prisoners. ■ Col. Boquet promised to give them his answer next day and returned with his army to camp. Boquet's boldness excited the chiefs, but they remembered the disastrous del eat he had . inflicted on them a year before at Bushy Run western Pennsylvania. The Indians gave in at once and the Delaware chiefs immediately delivered eighteen captives and eighty three small sticks indicating the number of prisoners they still held. The chiefs all submitted to Col. Boquet’s terms. The bower at which
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