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SPAIN IN THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY, 176B-17B4
the Spaniards and that in the future the nation would hi the eaid Americans as their friends.
If you want to send by the bearer the 50 pounds of powd-100 pounds of shot which I was forced to leave with the sava brought them, you will do me a very great favor; otherwise, tr be a total loss to me.
Reply of the Seminoles to their brothers the Upper Creeks*
We do not know where this Tampa Bay is. We suppose t? where the Spaniards catch their fish for Havana. Be th may, since our brothers the Upper Creeks have promised, promise, and we promise that there will be no obstacles fro side; furthermore we promise that in case the Americans ob it, to defend the rights of the Spaniards.
To our brothers Mad Dog and Frangois Tastanagoy: Evi which you do will be approved by your brothers the Seminoles.
I	beg you to pass this paragraph to the Baron.
Five of the savages of Otissi came back loaded with meat a low. The brother-in-law of Antoine Gargon was one of the fiv killed five oxen which belonged to Tom and Jack Miller. The' others remain near Pensacola to hunt in accordance with An invitation. His brother-in-law has already gone back with''" to the village to join the fifteen who have remained, and the will g6 and hunt at a point which Antoine Gargon is to show, and where he says there is plenty of deer. He informed the' of the said Otissi that it was not necessary for them to take sions because he undertook to supply them, and that he wouTi the hunt with them for Christmas. Besides, he told the sava came to get ammunition that, if they had had a letter from G they would have received amunition, but that since they cam" my letter they would be obliged to go away empty-handed, an the governor paid no attention to my letters, and that they wo well not to bring any more letters from this Apatana Ajoo; t to say, Mad Frog. This is how I have to be the laughing s1' this person Antoine, and the other day you seemed angry becii complained.	f
The king of the Cosettis brought me the letter which you ga him for me, and he told me that he was quite satisfied with w had given to him and to his people, and he asks me to say ? you? to you, meaning that he is quite grateful to you.
Nothing more for the time being except the pleasure of telling that I have the honor of being etc.	s}
(Signed) De Milfo
To Colonel White.
Problems of frontier defense, i782-i7?4 ?	Trudeau	to	Carondelet
October SO, 179S
vipt of the new plan of commerce which Your Lordship >fan official letter of the 10th of last July, I was compelled y to call together the merchants of this town, without r the end of the month, the time set by Your Lordship for ecting, for the reason that most of them were ready to 'flerent points on the Mississippi in order to begin the Ing. In that case I would have been left with a small Tthe merchants, and could not have learned (until the e coming year) the opinion of the majority of which hip wishes to be informed. Their opinions, which are the margins of the articles of the plan, were unanimously as well as in the other additional proposals of Your Lord-'ch I find nothing objectionable. On the Contrary they el favorable to the intentions of Your Lordship to make ements prosper, and in conformity with the desires of all a?rits present. They signed the said plan, which I am re-syou according to orders.
'i-Your Lordship many years.
' .October ?0,1793.
.	Zenon	Trudeau	(Rubric).
?son de Carondelet.
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Friendship and Guaranty between His Catholic Maj-ig of Spain and Emperor of the Indies for the one party, e other, the Chickasaw, Creek, Talapoosa, Alibamon, nd Choctaw nations. The first party is represented in His Majesty by Don Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, colonel of rmies, military and political governor of the post and Natchez, commissioned for this purpose by the Baron de , knight of the order of St. John, colonel of the royal overnor, intendant and vice-patron of the province of ar*d West Florida, and inspector of the veteran troops and ereof. The second party is represented in the name of the w nation, by Ugulayacabe Mingo, Atakabeholacta, Mongul-S?, Chicacha Olactaopaye, Stanapayahacho, Ufehuma, and
Treaty of Nogales ~October ?8, m