
          used by them is called Conti Hateka or White Root.

I regret to say that the prospect of [defeating] 
the Seminoles this summer seems entirely blasted.

The 3rd last was the day appointed for the arrival of
[Holatoucher?] or Alla-tou-chee & Alligator (under chiefs) with all the
Seminole people. They managed their part so well as
to keep secret in a great measure, their movements in
the interior and induced us to hope (through with some 
satisfaction) that the 3rd arrived that they would fulfull their promoise
and be ready for embarkation at the appointed time.
On the night of the 3rd however a party that had for some
time past been encamped within 8 or 9 miles of this place
ready for embarkation was surrounded in camp by
a party of armed men and compelled to emigrate without
delay in a retrograde order, or to the southward and
eastward instead of northward and westward.

Micconopic and Jumper head chiefs of the
nation (if nation it should be called) were among
those carried off. It is said that the Miccosukees
have prevailed in council and revised the decrees of
the nation. So an end to [?] til we catch them again.
This Miccosukee band or tribe as its name imports is
without a king or in other words micco [soucusche?] that
is king got none, or gone. [?] the rogues may
say they have no king for they soon take away his
authority though they acknowldge one. They have
long been considered distinct from the Seminoles
though as their party was small they had not much influence
in the nation of late years. The famous Powell

        