we have accomplished every thing which God has designed for us to accomplish. Then let us have an eye to this outfit. Let them have horses or mules and such trinkets as will suit the Indians that you may form a union with them and smoke the pipe of peace with them The leading object of this mission is to unite the tribes from North to South. When these brethren get into these tribes and get them to understand their mission and who they are, they will send their messengers from tribe to tribe and will have the intelligence communicated in a trice, and then they can look out for a place for a location. The tribes are ready to come forth and take hold of the matter in earnest. Things will be done right, I have no fear. As to to the outfit it is absolutely necessary they should have mules, trinkets, ammunition, guns and instruments to take latitude [p. [62]]