asked how he had fared the many Years since they had seen each other, whence he then came, what occasion’d the Journey, &c. &c. Conrad answered all his Questions, & when the Discourse began to flag, the Indian to continue it, said, Conrad, you have lived long among the white People and know something of their Customs. I have been sometimes at Albany, and have observed that once in Seven Days they shut up their Shops, and assemble all in the great House; tell me, what is it for? what do they do there?