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If the white people are helped now then those who have tried to live in peace & to undertake the peaceful pursuits.  When a man returns from a place his friends ask of his visit.  Your people will ask what you have seen, & so so we wish you to take these words of ours in your [[?arms]] [[strikethrough]] & [[/strikethrough]] as for a helpless people who are trying to go forward.  We are all getting old, & may not live long on the lands you have secured to us, but the lands are to come to our children & we wish to do something for them.  We think your words will have might & so we ask you to speak for us.  I am as a weak struggler but still struggling to go forward.  This man wishes to try a new experiment & I am in