SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON

that business should be carried on as honestly with
the natives as with the white men. Unlike his
fellow-countrymen, he constantly urged adequate
preparation for war on the part of the English and
demanded that they should bear their share of the
burden. In a written report at the Albany con-
gress he strongly recommended that inasmuch as
the Six Nations, owing to their wars with the
French, had fallen short both in hunting and
planting, they should be provided with food from
the English supplies. Finally he testified to the
sincerity of his convictions by going to the war
himself and rendering valuable service first as colo-
nel and later as major-general. After'the Battle
of Lake George, Johnson was knighted by the
King and received a grant of £5000 from Par-
liament. In the same year he was appointed by the
Crown "Agent and Sole Superintendent of the
Six Nations and other northern Indians" inhabit-
ing British territory north of the Carolinas and the
Ohio River.

Johnson is described by one who saw him about
this time or somewhat earlier as a man of com-
manding presence, only a little short of six feet in
height, "neck massive, broad chest and large limbs,
great physical strength, the head large and shapely,