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few at a time, but prepared for action, and to quickly and 

 noiselessly surround the corral. X. then began a speech, to 

 gain time and by way of reply. Put into understandable 

 English, he said : " I see none here but braves. Where are 

 the old men, the wise men who are to counsel about the 

 treaty? Where are the young men? the women and 

 children, who are so hungry ? When they come you shall 

 have the oxen and flour, not before." While he had been 

 speaking, the troopers and frontiersmen had obeyed their 

 orders. As the Indians caught sight of them they showed 

 evident surprise, got together in little knots, and com- 

 menced talking earnestly to each other. Pah-Squal never 

 moved a muscle or appeared to see them. When X. had 

 ceased talking, Pah-Squal replied to this effect : " The old 

 men are not yet here, for they cannot walk fast like we can. 

 'The women and children are not come, for they are not 

 brave ; they are afraid of white men. The young men are 

 with them, because of the Pinalas. Perhaps, when they 

 hear you will not give us what you promised unless they 

 corne they will get braver, for they are very hungry." 

 Then he sent off a couple of runners, the Indians put their 

 arrows into the quivers and their bows into their cases, the 

 troopers slung their carbines, the frontiersmen stacked their 

 rifles in the house, and whites and Indians became quite 

 friendly. 



In less than half an hour, old men, boys, women, and 

 children, all came swarming into and around the corral. 

 There was quite a crowd of them, and they had been 

 doubtlessly hidden in the rocks not far off, awaiting even- 

 tualities. The oxen were slaughtered and cut up, the flour 



