If Kaintock is permitted to grow she will threaten Louisiana.

These men in their buckskins are daring and dangerous and we must attend to them!" The Spaniard clenched his hands in anger, and the blue light of his eyes was singularly cruel.
"Galvez is a fool," he continued.

"He is not allowing the English to trade at New Orleans, but he is giving the American rebels full chance.

He his allowed one, Pollock, Oliver Pollock, to establish a base there.

This Pollock has formed a company of New York, Philadelphia, and Boston merchants, and they are sending arms and ammunition in fleets of canoes up the Mississippi and then up the Ohio to Fort Pitt, where they are unloaded and then taken eastward by land for the use of the rebels.