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[[start page]] Nelkeife Hajo [underline] achulee [/underline] left for Whausa with Kafiktsootsee party in 1850 [[end of page]] [[start page]] [underline] 1848 Dec. 31. [/underline] (At the stoneleh: Harbor.) Soon after [underline] assunwah [/underline] arrived he informed me rather formally that he should remain with his men until I left !! I asked him if he came as a guard or spy, if he or his people had any objections to my visit - that I may here by request if Bowley Jones and did not expect to have had a guard to match me te te. He disclaimed all wish to appear rude or inhospitable- said I was welcome and he was at a lop to explain the failure of Jones Bowley to meet me tc.c. Some feeling was shown on both sides, an I was greatly indignant. While I was lying down up stair one of the Mikkassoke Indians [underline] osanna mather [/underline] sat near my hed and asked me many questions about Arkansas and while he was speaking an assunwah son was coming up stair he abruptly changed the subject & gave me a look which I understood as a desire not to have our topic known to another. Subsequently an old dark colored fellow ([underline] Nelkup Achuler [/underline]) came & in line mawna spoke of Arkansas- saying he had some children killed in the war- one son was killed with [underline] Ahallok Hajo [/underline] when that chief was sent out by Gen. Jens to Sam Jones from Ft Infiter, and that his last son accompanied [underline] Tuskeegee [/underline] party to the West. He wanted to hear from him- if he was alive he would join him- he had no relations here & felt alone in his age. As he spoke of his son he wept. I took note of it & wrote to M. Durat for information, but that gentleman never replied to my inquiries. There was no money to be made by the operation, so that the request was not appreciated. I hoped, by exchanging such information, to prepare a party here for emigration, but am not seconded by the Afent west. [underline] Assumvah [/underline] is growing restless- wants to know what "talk" I bring tc. His men have but little food & there is no game near here. I tell him that he need not wait, that I did [underline] not [/underline] come to see [underline] him [/underline], that I am here by invitation of his AsChief who have footed me the haved unworthily meanly. [[end of page]]