instructions. The Indian usage is to go from home empty and return loaded like the bee. These men are to go on an important mission and it is necessary to furnish them with every thing they may need. Indian usage is different to gentile usage. You must use those means which may be necessary to give them to understand who you are and the nature of your business, also to tell them who they are and what they are and what their rights are, and that this is their land and the gentiles have usurped it from them. The gentiles have rejected every thing that belongs to salvation. They have taken from us every right, and it is necessary that we use every means in our power to take care of ourselves. I feel to rejoice that the time has come when the Lord will restore to Jacob his land. I feel to rejoice that I have an opportunity to be numbered among this council and I feel never to stop nor deviate, till [p. [61]]