When the European population begins to approach the limit of the desert inhabited by a savage tribe, the government of the United States usually dispatches envoys to them, who assemble the Indians in a large plain, and having first eaten and drunk with them, accost them in the following manner:
Nazio basati bat bizi deneko basa eremura europarrak hurbiltzen hasten direnean, Estatu Batuetako gobernuak eskuarki enbaxada solemne bat bidaltzen du bertara; zuriek lautada zabal batean biltzen dituzte indioak, eta, beraiekin jan eta edan ondoren, esaten diete: