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Messrs Hamilton + Benoist [illegible] are now very sma--
 
Messrs Hamilton + Benoist [illegible] are now very sma--
 
and we will do all in our power to persuade them to
 
and we will do all in our power to persuade them to
go [Illegible] these chiefs [illegible]welcomed? with Lafontaine.
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go: these chiefs welcomed with Lafontaine.
  
---- Some of them I learn are better pleasured with
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Some of them I learn are better pleased with
the --er --t, than they expected to be; Ko-afsee-
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the [contract] [illegible], than they expected to be; Ko-afsee-
--- the first chief was very well pleased with the
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[illegible] the first chief was very well pleased with the
C---ber you -alely gave their Pollawotomee friends,
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Contract you [alely] gave their Pollawotomee friends,
on the Kanza?; and could they get Co--ber there,
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[on the] Kansas; and could they get Co--ber there,
 
[illegible] the tribe not required by treaty to go  
 
[illegible] the tribe not required by treaty to go  
[illegible] be in- to E-negrate
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[can] be [illegible] to Emigrate
 
[illegible] [illegible] be earnestly desc- to closer to Messr
 
[illegible] [illegible] be earnestly desc- to closer to Messr
 
[illegible] salis? factory to
 
[illegible] salis? factory to