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[[underlined]] June 29th [[/underlined]] 1849. [[underlined]] Felipe [[/underlined]] arrives. He will not go into the nation for any sum with a message, by himself, but will go with Capt. Casey [[underlined]]any where [[/underlined]]. 

June 30th off in Louis Cavaceirch's sloop Eirama  with Lt. J.K. Walbridge - Louis & Juan Emer.

[[underlined]July 2d [[/underlined] Touched at Snell's place Sarasota and learn that no Indians has visited there for 5 weeks. 

[[underlined]] July 6. 1849 [[/underlined]] Friday - Meet [[underlined]] Ismahtee [[/underlined]] & a group of his people on r. bank mouth of Pea river - They seem scared at first - then hoist a white flag in reply to mine and I land with Felipe in a skiff. am recd. cordialle, - find about 4 men - 2 boys and 8 women in the camp. [[underlined]] Smahtee [[/underlined]] at once anticipates my censure for him being outside the boundary or on my side of  river, by saying [[underlined]] our [/underlined]] surveyor had been surveying and blazing trees on [[underlined]] his [[/underlined]] side etc etc. He agree to carry a message to [[underlined]] Bowlegs [[/underlined]] for me. His people beg very hard & when I offer some calicos they ask if they are government U.S. property for it is against their law to accept any thing from the Govt. and the chief would punish them were they to do so. No controls [[best guess] seem to exist with regard to Whiskey & Tobacco !!! The women [[?]] Sam Jones & his laws - say that Jones & Bowlegs will never know of it & that [[underlined]] women [[/underlined]] should not be included in such a law. Finally old [[underlined]] Smahtee [[/underlined]] allows the women & children, only, to accept a dress a piece & so the affair is unpromised [[best guess]] with his two wives who were rather threatening in their talk! Presently a canoe is seen descending the river with [[underlined]] Simon [[/underlined]] & his old wife in when Smahtee & his people seem agitated & hasten to caution me not let [[underlined]] Simon [[/underlined]] know about the presents!

After much consultation they select [[underlined]] Simon [[/underlined]] to carry my message to his master Bowlegs.


[[underlined]] July 7th. [[/underlined]] Off for [[underlined]] Caloosa Hatchee [[/underlined]] 

[[underlined]] July 11th. [[/underlined]] Reach [[underlined]] Punta Piedra [[/underlined]], old Ft Harry, [[underlined]] now [[/underlined]] Ft Myers.

[[underlined]] July 14th. [[/underlined]] Sail down to P'ta Espada. [[underlined]] see no Simon [[/underlined]].

[[underlined]] July 15th. [[/underlined]] Back to Pta Piedra - blaze a tree & nail a white flag with tobacco & big white beads near it for W. Bowlegs. 

[[underlined]] July 19th [[/underlined]] Land at [[underlined]] Mound [[/underlined]] 6 miles above Pta Piedra & leave flag & tobacco & beads again at an old camp for W.B. I then get under way for home despairing of Simon or Billy.

[[underlined]] July 21st. [[/underlined]] Return to Fort Brooke & hear from a boat before arriving that there is [[underlined]] War! [[/underlined]] & all thought us killed!

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*Indian wife's name difficult to discern..Timor? Timon? Limor? Limon?