Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.

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.

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.

Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.