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a squirrel; no stop to smoke a pipe; but lun, lun all the day long."
When the walker came to the Kitoochtinny or Blue Mountains (sometimes called the Lehigh Hills), beyond which a treaty made with the Indians in 1718 stipulated that no former purchase, or alleged purchase from the Indians should go, Combush stopped, saying that the walk having gone thus far he did not care how much farther it would go.
Next day, Marshall continued his walk, and kept it up until about noon when he fell faint against a sapling to which he clung for support, saying that he could go no further.
The Indians had thought that when the walk would have ended at the end of a reasonable day and a half's walk, and with the compass turned at right angles, the line would strike the Delaware River about Delaware Water-Gap. Instead of that the line struck the river near the mouth of Shohola Creek, now in Tioga County, taking in the rich Minisink Flats along the Delaware River, containing the fertile farms. of the Shawnese and Delaware Indians.
These Indians, who generations before had been driven from the South by Cherokee and probably Seminole Indians had been adopted by the Five Nations and by them allowed to settle on the Minisink Flats, and when they found the land on which they had spent so much labor "slipping from under their feet" they refused to go; so the Proprietaries called upon the Six Nations to eject them; and for this purpose a council of that powerful confederacy, at which the Proprietaries and representatives. of the Shawnese and Delawares were present met in Easton about September, 1738.
At this council, after the case was stated, Tedyuscung, chief of the Delawares, and other chiefs defended the rights of the Indians with much vigor and eloquence, but to no avail. They were ordered by the chiefs of the Six Nations, with the most insulting language to vacate their lands and to go immediately. They were called women and reproached that they had already eaten and drunk the price of their holdings: Says a historian in later years, "They went with vengeance in their hearts; and the blood of Braddock's soldiers was added to the price of the land."
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