On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.

Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.

Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag.

Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place.

The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.