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Rosealie read the petition after her father had made an opening speech setting forth the diagram.

The slowness necessary to an interpretation is peculiar & the patience of the Indians very marked, perhaps it is hardly patience.  11 were present, & Millie Springer & told of the school.

Indians take the end of the pen between their thumb & forefinger, signing a paper is called "Linching the pen.

I wrote the names -

Doube-Moni  X  a Harrison McCauley
To-oh-Ka-hah  X  Arthur Ramsey
Mah-ha-na-ze  X  Richard Robinson  [[?Charles and]] John
Mumba Douba  X  Lisa Webster
Nah-loo-la-tah  X  Sam Irving
Osh-ga-be-ta-gah  X  Robt. Morris
Jay-who-tom-bee  X  Chas. Robinson
Leyer Nunba  X  George Trent
Ma-hah-ta X  Fred Merrick or Henry Morris
En-cha be  X Jed Miller or John Pitcher