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and abandoning their proposed raid turned back and brought him 

 safely to his friends and tribe, where he fully recovered and lived for 

 many years. A few years after his return he made several shields, 

 as directed by the Utime, one of which still exists iu possession of 

 Dr J. D. Gleunan, U. S. A., now stationed at Fort Clark, Texas; he also 

 made the sacred a'poio, which he carried for some time in the annual 

 sun dance, and afterward bestowed it upon his sou (i. e., nephew) K'a- 

 ya'nti, who still lives, now an old man. Kofiiite subsequently assumed 

 the name of Patadal, "Lean-bull," which he conferred later ou its 

 present owner, commonly known to the whites as Poor-buflalo. 



Captain Pope, who visited the Hueco tanks iu 1854, describes the 

 peculiar formation of the cave springs and mentions the Giiadaloute 

 fight of some years before, his statements being evidently derived from 

 the Mexicans, who were disposed to magnify their 

 own part in the affair. He says : 



liesides the water coutained in the tanks there are numer- 

 ous holes and crerices in the mountains, which contain 

 sufficient for every purpose to last for a considerable time. 

 It is proper to remark that auini.als can not drink from the 

 tanks; the water is taken out in buckets and thrown down 

 the rocks until all have been supplied. Thus waterinji is a 

 matter of time and labor. The peculiar formation of these 

 mountains, their innumerable caverns and hiding places, 

 seem to have been intended for a refuge for the Indians ; nor 

 have they neglected to avail themselves of its advantages. 

 In one instance, however, they "reckoned without their 

 host." About fourteen years ago these Arabs of New Mexico, 

 the Apaches, having made a desperate foray upon the Mexi- 

 cans, retreated with their plunder to these mountains. The „,„ ,„„ -nr- ^ ,„.„ .„ 



' ^ TIG. iJJ — ■ \v niter 18o7-oe — 



Mexicans surprised and surrounded them, hemming them up Horses stolen. 



in the rocky ravine forming the eastern tank. Here an en- 

 gagement took place, in which the Indians were totally defeated and nearly exter- 

 minated, only two or three escaping. It is said that upward of one hundred of 

 them were killed (Pacific Railroad, 1). 



WINTER 18.57-58 



The Kiowa camped this winter ou Two-butte creek {A'zot P'a, 

 "Driftwood creek "), a southern tributary of the Arkansas, below Bent's 

 Fort iu Colorado. A band of Pawnee came on foot and stole six bunches 

 of horses, inchiding all tliose of T'ebodal and Set-iingya; among them 

 were three spotted mules. The Kiowa pursued the thieves for three 

 days and came iu sight of them at sunset; they intended to strike 

 them next morning and get the stock, but that night a snowstorm 

 came ou and stopped the pursuit; however, they killed one Pawnee who 

 had been crippled by the cold. The figure above the winter mark 

 rei^resents the stolen horses. 



SUMMER 1858 



Ado-byuni K'dclo, "Timber-circle sun dance." This dance was held 

 on lower Mule creek, entering the Salt fork of the Arkansas from the 



