He Said - "Friends, I
Salute You." Immediately After The Salutations, A Day Was Fixed For A
Council.
Two personages were appointed to meet us.
On the day named,
one gentleman arrived, the other did not. He said - "Let us do without
him who did not come." But the other soon came.
"'As soon as we had taken our seats, he said - "Friends, I have come to
ask you about the lands, if you will give them to me. I do not want
much - give what you choose. Will you give me as far from the river as
you can distinguish the belly of a horse? It is to put settlers here -
people far off, who have misery in their own country. This is why I
want it. They will not trespass upon or spoil your lands that you
retain outside of the limits I have named. I wish to put inhabitants
upon it to cultivate the soil. I will endeavour to make the country
like my own country. If I succeed in accomplishing what I intend, there
will be merchants and traders from one end of the Settlement to the
other, who will furnish you with goods. They will be at a little
distance from each other, and you will have a chance of seeking out the
best places for trading. All this I will do, if we can arrange about
the land."
"'We were five Chiefs. I represented this district, the other Chiefs,
other districts. The Earl said to me - "Speak you first - how much land
will you give me?" I said - "I will speak last:
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