can be obtained from the guilty, but unreasonable it is to suppos it can be taken on the innocent. the bad ones shall be killed as soon as they can be found, but nothing more natural when they loosed their dam, they fled the nation, but am in hopes our good warriors will soon overtake them, and kill them. I hope you will wait with patience. The time you allow is very short, but consider it is not so long since one of my beloved friends was killed in his peaceable camp and another wounded, their camp plundered, and when we demanded satisfaction it never was given by your people nor taken by ours till twelve moons after the crime was committed. I suppose the murderers were not to be found, and understand by your laws that the innocent cannot suffer for the guilty, therefore as eldest Brother hope you will not so much encourage yourselves as to deviate from your own laws and copy ours. I likewise undertake to inform you of a thing you before perhaps have been ignorant of, my reasons the talks become a little friendly but our paths but our paths are filled with travelling renegade people, and some families that pretend they are going to the Spanish boundary, others of them are bad men who steal from your people and fly to our land and impose there plunder on us, and we the in a state of ignorance are blamed for it. Our departed friend wished at these proceedings but Shape as you are going to take his place that you will take such steps as will punish the like in future, the day never was before bad men came among us but we was a happy people, but they have learned our young men their bad ways and on account of our not having laws to punish us by bad precedents are become miserable. I have always understood that the Crown was the law and that we were both to drink of one Stream. if the [remainder cut off at page bottom]