Deposit recommended.

In case His Excellency does not deem it expedient to purchase these lands, at present, I would beg leave to suggest that a small deposit be paid thereon, in order that some assurance may be given that Europeans will hereafter settle amongst them. This people are well aware of the advantages to be derived from that source; and this feeling appears to be their strongest motive for relinquishing their old habits of violence, and yielding to us to compose their animosities.