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SPAIN IN THE MISSISSIPPI VAI.LEY, 178S-1794
stomach is extremely upset by the bad food. I shall go there, how ever, as soon as I shall be able. I shall send you a report of m activities since my arrival at Choctaw, but it will be through Bati a local trader whom Monsieur le Baron is sending you for Kogal-and a copy of the speeches I have made to the Choctaws to hav them mend their ways. As there was a safe man leaving for New Orleans, I informed the governor of what is going on and sent h! a copy of the speeches I have made.	^
As the king of the Chickasaws is waiting for the return of ifranchimastabe, who left for Mobile seven days ago, before speaking to the nation, I shall inform you of what has happened and of the manner in which the Choctaws have received these messages.
I believe they will have a good effect in the present circumstances especially as it is coming from the Talapoosas. I read to the Chickasaw king the letter which you had given me for him. It flattered him a great deal, and he asked me to tell you that he is carrying you in his heart, that he hopes to see you some day and renew his friendship, and that he is quite grateful for the sugar and coffee that you sent him. He has quarrelled with Payemingo and Ogoulayacabe who had proposed that he go to America with them. He did not even reply to them; on the contrary, he left immediately! for the Talapoosa nation where he arrived fifteen days ago. After resting there he came to the Choctaws with Mr. Turnbull who has ?one to the Chickasaws.
The commandant of Mobile has called eight small and large medal; chiefs to speak to them at Fort Tombecbe. I do not know the reason for this, since he wrote to Favre and not to me. They must be there/ -he 12th current, and return immediately afterwards. The king off :he Chickasaws is asking you for a lock, a pair of hinges, and a few? pounds of nails for a hut he is having built.
God have you in His holy keeping.
Bqokfopca. September 10, 1791.
At the house of Monsieur Favre where I am staying
(	Jn.	Det.avh.i.eheuvue	(Rubric)
M. Don Manoel Gallozo de Lemos
Delaviixebecvre to [Carondelet]
September 179S.si
Translated and, sent to Aranda with No. 0 in reply to No. H-
As I desire to inform you accurately of what went on at Cumber-and, I have made all the necessary inquiries. I am able to tell you
** BL, (Freoeh).
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hat 550 Chickasaws went there with 107 Chootaws. General Blount arrived there also, and after calling them together, spoke to them thus: ?I am coming on behalf of my chief to give you presents and to tell you that we have not made you come here to ask lands of you nor to urge you to make war against any other nation, but only to make your acquaintance, to enter into an alliance with you in order that wo may live in peace, and be friends with your nations forever. We propose to you merely the establishment of a trading post at the entrance of the bayou which is called in English ?Bear Creek? and in 'Indian ?Actchipo,? and which runs into the Cherokee River. We shall ?furnish you trading merchandise there and we shall trade together.? ?To which the Chickasaws replied that, if they established a trading-ipost there, they would not be able to maintain themselves in it, sinci . the Talapoosas killed their men even in the midst of their towns, and stole all their horses, which was proof enough that they could not . remain in peace at that place, so why was this impossible thing being proposed to them? If later on they desired to trade with them at Cumberland, the young men who went to hunt in that direction couid
sell them their furs.
Governor Blount then named four chiefs of the Chickasaw nation,
, Payemingo, Ougoulayacabe, Mongoulachamlngo, and 'i'chinabe, to go and see Washington next spring at Philadelphia. Once there they 'might expect to be fully compensated for their troubles. He made a present to the chiefs which consisted in four Limbourg blankets, four white ones, one uniform, one hat, four pairs of trousers, four pairs of leggings, four lace shirts, some cloth, a little powder, and a few lead bars, as he did not have any ball. Not having any muskets, he gave only three rifles to the three principal chiefs. To each warrioi ho gave one half of what he gave to the chiefs.
That is what their presents amounted to. Governor Blount then ( asked them where they wanted to receive their axes and tomahawks, as he expected to be able to give them some within a short time, n . this the Chickasaws replied: ?If you have any why do you mention a? other place? Doubtless you have none.? Governor Blount at tl'?
: juncture got up and told them that they might withdraw whene> they wished as he had nothing else to tell them on behalf of his hi|r? chief. This, I believe, is the accurate story of what took place. The red men talk a lot and lie as much, so that we can not rely on what they say. Some say one thing and others something else, but this information comes from the right source and I believe it certain, since it comes from a white man called Maquanse, a trader in the Chickasaw nation. He is an honest man who had gone to Cumberland to collect some debts and who had taken the opportunity of traveling with the Chickasaws for fear of being killed by the Talapoosas. When