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To the Senate of the United States: I transmit herewith, for the advice and approbation of the Senate, a treaty with the Creek and Seminole tribes of Indians, concluded on the 4th day of January last. WASHINGTON, February 14, 1845.
It was decided that they should proceed forthwith to a small fortress a few miles southward, where a squad of regulars was stationed. The place was called Fort Leigh, but it scarcely deserved the name, being in reality only a temporary camp located on the site of an old fortification which had been a military headquarters during the Seminole wars.
I have made a careful comparison of the terms of Seminole relationship I obtained with those of the Creek Indians, embodied in Dr. L. H. Morgan’s Consanguinity and Affinity of the American Indians, and I find that, as far as I was able to go, they are the same, allowing for the natural differences of pronunciation of the two peoples.
Do you think she had better try this evening or go after the big duck?" "Pen-ni-chah," said the Seminole quietly. "He says, 'turkey-gobbler," whispered Shiela to Hamil; "'pen-nit-kee' is the word for hen turkey. Oh, I hope I have a chance. You'll pair with me, won't you?" "Of course." Cardross, listening, smiled. "Is it yelping or roosting, Little Tiger?" "Roost um pen-ni-chah, aw-tee-tus-chee.
Me think maybe find 'em there." "Death river's a good place for that old scoundrel to hang out," I agreed. "How far?" "Maybe fifteen mile, maybe ten, maybe twenty; no can say. We see." "By the way, Smilax, how do you say 'damn old scoundrel' in Seminole?" He raised his head and appreciatively grinned, answering: "Hal-wak esta-had-kee, mean 'bad white man." "That's neither bad nor short enough.
The lodges, or the temporary structures which the Seminole make when “camping out,” are, of course, much simpler and less comfortable than their houses.
The finding was unanimous that the plan of the Seminole campaign was well devised, and prosecuted with energy, steadiness, and ability; and as to the Creek campaign, the court decided that the plan of the campaign as adopted by General Scott was well calculated to lead to successful results, and that it was prosecuted by him, as far as practicable, with zeal and ability until he was recalled from the command.
Go on; what did the note say?" "It was only a request for the police to search the Seminole at once." "Oh, that's the way the wind blows. But you preferred to tackle the job yourself. I am certainly obliged to you, West." "You have no reason to be. I took that note to the police, and they are on the case.
Scarcely had the British troops been withdrawn from the Gulf of Mexico to fight more successfully at Waterloo, when Jackson was called to put an end to the Seminole war in Florida, which Spanish territory he occupied on the ground of self-defence. The Indians Seminoles and Creeks with many runaway negroes, had been pillaging the border of Georgia.
That is, I stumbled on some of it, and the rest I dug out for myself. It won't take long to explain and perhaps you better understand. They told me at the office when I got back about the Seminole being tied up at the Municipal Pier, and that you had gone down there. Well, I made it as quick as I could, but the yacht was three hundred yards out in the lake by the time I arrived.
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