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were visited by a couple of mounted & armed messengers from the President of the Council in the town of Nahuatzen.

They bore a formidably worded document setting forth that it had been learned that strangers were said to be encamped upon the community lands and as their business was unknown he commanded the duly commissioned bearer to come and investigate the motives of our presence. I explained the object of our visit & showed them the specimens at hand & informed them that I had a letter in my baggage left at town from the Gov.