Around the same time that concern about the slaves' growing familiarity with the Cherokee dialect was discussed, a Spanish commission landed at Coweta, the chief town of the Lower Creeks, accompanied by an ex-Carolina slave whose main purpose was to translate between the Creeks and the Spanish. He vouched for the semantic capacity of a percentage of the runaway slaves and their capacity to acclimatize into the other cultures of European countries and additionally into Yamasee, Cherokess, or Creek social orders (Taylor, 77-78)
However, there are other Eurocentric Americans (namely Sam), who wish for Old Shatterhand to actually kill Tangua. Sam believes that it is "imprudent" (May 488)