[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] grand council of the Six Nations, who were invited to assemble " to eat the flesh and drink the blood of a Bostonian;" in other words, to feast on the occasion of a proposed treaty of alliance against the patriots, who were denominated Bostonians as a special appeal to the prejudices of the Indians. There was a pretty full attendance at the council, but a large portion of the sachems adhered faithfully to their covenant of neutrality, and it was not until the British commissioners appealed to their avarice that their sense of honor was overcome. The con tract was closed by the distribution of scarlet clothes, beads, and trinkets, in addition to which each warrior was presented a brass kettle, a suit of clothes, a gun, a tomahawk and a scalping knife, a piece of gold, a quantity of ammunition, and a promise of a bounty upon every scalp he should bring in.1 Brant was ac knowledged as a war captain, and soon after commenced his career of blood upon the borders. Meanwhile the attention of the colonists had not been entirely devoted to the Six Nations. In April, 1774, the Provincial congress of Massachusetts sent a message to the Mahicans and Wappingers 2 at Westenhuck, apprising them of the gathering tempest, and expressing a desire to cultivate a good understand ing with them. In reply, Captain Solomon Wa-haun-wan-wau-meet visited Boston on the eleventh of April, and delivered the