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[[underlined]] 1849 Jany 2d [[/underlined]] "Tampa is far from your residence & it is against the red white law for your people to cross the boundaries. This is one reason for the present bad state of official intercourse. We proposed to move the post [[?]] to this harbor & came to seek a site. We like [[underlined]]Tioseppe Island [/underlined]] and you will tell the chief what we have in contemplation. Your people seem so wild that we are cautious & explain ourselves beforehand that you may not be frightened or suspicious. I have known yr people many years and am known to many of you probably, and now my visit is as a friend. 

I am not comdg offr. or Agent, but came to Fla. for my healh. While here it will gratify me if I can avert trouble from my old friends the Seminoles. I have delivered a message from Maj. Morris, but most of my talk is from my own heart & all I approve of.

I might well have gone back without saying a word to you, for your chiefs have treated me badly, but I bury my own feelings to aid your people."

[[underlined]] Assunwah [/underlined]] said  "I am not a chief but I am pleased to hear you talk. I will repeat it to Bowlegs & Jones. I may however tell you plainly that we want no post down here and if it comes we will not visit it. We will not hurt ourselves in your garrison. We fear "grabs" and we have cause to do so. As to visiting Ft. Brooke, that is out of the question. They will not trust us so far as that. I am ashamed for my chiefs, and cannot imagine why they are not here. Perhaps they wait to hear from you, and if you want to send a message for them I will furnish you with a runner at once."

Capt. C. "I have no message to send. When I go to an old friends house by invitation I do not expect to send & ask him to come & welcome me. I am not a day." [[underlined]] Assunwah.[[/underlined]]  "I am greatly ashamed for my chief, but I think they might come if they were sent for."