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quarter, for on such depends their success, or ruin. -
Impress them with the idea, that whoever advises them to hold
a large tract of country, and live by, and follow their hunting, is
their enemies, and will in the end cause them to be totally ruined-

Endeavour to persuade them, that the Point, or Mouth of Holston
is the most suitable for the treaty, the Point I prefer. -

The foregoing is the outlines of your mission, but the principal
and sole object, is for you to prepare them for as an extensive disposal
of their claim, as can be possibly obtained. - Recommending to you,
to be as private on the occasion, as the nature of the object will admit,
making use of all necessary caution and circumspection the importance
of your business will necessarily require. - The observations which
are stated for you to make, as you will discover, is intended to
prepare them for the primary object, they are truths, and notwith=
=standing intended for to answer peculiar purposes to this state,
but will prove in the end, if attempted to by the indians, the very
salvation of that nation. -

I am &c

/signed/

John Sevier