[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] instructed to visit Brant at Unadilla. Herkimer took with him three hundred Tryon county militia, and invited Brant to meet him. This the chief agreed to. It was a week after Her kimer arrived at Unadilla, however, before Brant made his 1 " Joseph, since his arrival from Eng-America, in Indian matters, and deserves; land, has showed himself the most zealous to be noticed as such." — Colonel Claust and faithful subject his majesty can have in Colonial History, vm, 724. 34 268 THE INDIAN TRIBES appearance. He came accompanied by five hundred warriors. Neither party had confidence in the other, and it was finally agreed that their accompanying forces should encamp within two miles of each other, and that the principals to the confer ence should, with a few of their followers, meet in an open field. These preliminaries being adjusted, the conference was opened. In reply to Herkimer's inquiries, Brant declared,* " that the Indians were in concert with the king, as their fathers had been; that the king's belts were yet lodged with them, and they could not violate their pledge; that Herkimer and his fol lowers had joined the Boston people against their sovereign;