THE SEMINOLE INDIANS. 33 
noles (at Banes’ Landing on the Ochlawaha) by which they ceded 
their lands which they held in Florida in consideration of the pay- 
ment to them of an annuity of $15,400, and they agreed to send a 
delegation of chiefs to see the country offered them west of the 
Mississippi River to which they had agreed to emigrate. It was 
stipulated in the treaty that the cost of emigration should be paid for 
by the United States. All cattle owned by the Indians were to be 
estimated and paid for, and provision made that each person on 
reaching the new location should receive a blanket, a homespun 
frock, and an additional annuity of three hundred dollars per year 
for fifteen years was to be divided among them, besides other minor 
considerations, such as claims for runaway slaves, and the services 
of a blacksmith, etc. 
It was agreed that they were to remove within three years. The 
Seminoles living north of the boundary line (designated by Camp 
Moultrie) began to move west, and a few bands continued to emi- 
grate until 1835, when the balance refused positively to go at all. 
This year marked the commencement of what is known as the 
Seminole War. The Indians burned a bridge within six miles of 
Fort Brook, on Tampa Bay, and killed a mail-carrier in August 
of that year. Charles Emathla, an Indian chief, who was one of 
those friendly to the emigration movement, had been killed, and 
chiefs Little Cloud and Alligator, with their bands, attacked and 
nearly destroyed Major Dade’s company at a place about fifty-five 
miles south of Tampa Bay, Major Dade being among the killed. 
The party consisted of 114 men, 112 of whom were killed. It was 
at this time that Osceola first became prominent in directing the 
movements of the Indians. 
Robert Osceola and Charlie Osceola (of the Big Cypress) are 
descendants of that celebrated chief. Some of the old Indians are 
still alive who took part in that war. In speaking to Old Charlie 
(not Charlie Osceola) about Osceola he did not know at first who 
I meant, but upon my asking him if he had heard of Powell he 
immediately answered, ‘* Uncar; me know, great man.” 
The older Indians believe to this day that General Harney granted 
