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[[underline]]buy[[/underline]] our land and pay us money for it, and give us land here if we liked it.  Now your words are different.  You propose that [[double underline]]we buy[[/double underline]] or exchange our present home for one down here that we do not like.  We don't want to do it."  After some talk further we told him we wanted him to take us home. 
   He told us to make choice of some piece of land, and then he would take us home or to Washington by one of two roads.  We told him again we did not want to live in that country and wanted to go home.  He again told us to select a piece of land.  We told him we would rather go to