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direct the said goods to be landed, and he the said David Moore further
engages and agrees with the said William Blount that in the cha=
=racter of commander of the said flat bottomed boat he will use
the utmost of his skill and abilities in commanding conducting and
defending her with her lading down the tennessee against all
attacks that may be made upon the said boat by any hostile party
or parties of Creeks or Cherokees and that he will take special
care of Opoia Mingo and his party of Chickasaws who are to
pass down the tennessee in the said boat with the goods as before
described belonging to the Chickasaws and Chactaws-and the
said William Blount engages on the part of the United States
that the said David Moore [...] be paid for his own skill trouble and
service in commanding and conducting the said boat to the mouth
of Bear Creek or to such other place above as Opoia Mingo shall
order their goods to be landed two hundred dollars and that each of
the six oarsmen shall be paid one dollar per day for their services
counting from the time they appear at the boat ready to go on board
provided such appearance be not before the 18^th instant to the day
they return to this place provided more than twenty ^four days shall not
be allowed to return to this place from the place where the goods
shall be landed.—and it is further agreed that provisions
shall be put on board the said boat at this place at the cost of