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Some cavalry came here under au aa;ed officer of higli i-auk, but of 

 inferior intelligence, to capture the Mescalero Indians. 



The Mescaleros wished to have their village permanently hei-e by the 

 agency, and to receive their rations, i. e., were peacefully inclined. 



Our village was over there. I saw the general come with troops and 

 San Carlos scouts to surround (or cai)ture) the Mescalero Indians. There 

 were a great many San Carlos scouts and soldiers. 



I saw that my people were afraid, and half ot them fled. 



Next morning the Mescaleros did not shoot (were not hostile). The 

 otheis came and killed many Mescaleros. The cavalry and infantry 

 brought us (the Mescaleros) to this camp as prisoners. 



The San Carlos scouts were well sui)i)lied with ammunition and guns, 

 and shot many Warm Spring Indians and Mescaleros. 



The San Carlos scouts are brave raeji. 



T80D1AK0'8 REPORT. 



The following statement was nuule to Dr. W. J. Hoftmau by TsodiIko 

 (Shared head Boy), chief of the VVichitas in Indian Territory, while on 

 a visit to Washington, D. C, in June, 1<SS0. 



The Indiiiu being asked whether there was any timber in his part of 

 the Territorj', rei)lied in signs as follows: 



(1) Move the right hand, fingers loosely extended, separated and 

 pointing upward, back to the front, upward from the height of the waist 

 to the front of the face- tree; repeat this two or three times — trees ; (2) 

 then hold the hand. Angers extended and joined, j)ointing upward, with 

 the back to the front, and push it forward toward difitereut points on a 

 level with the face — standing at various places; (3) both hands, with 

 spread and slightly curved fingers, are held about two feet apart, before 

 the thighs, palms facing, then draw them toward one auother horizon- 

 tally and gradually upward until the wrists cross, as if grasping a 

 bunch of grass and pulling it up — many; (4) point to the southwest 

 with the index, elevating it a little above the horizon — country; (5) 

 then throw the list edgewise toward the surface, in that direction — 

 my, mine; (G) place both hands, extended, flat, edgewise before the 

 body, the left below the right, and both edges pointing toward the 

 ground a short distance to the left of the body, tben make repeated 

 cuts toward that direction from different points, the terLuiuatiou of each 

 cut ending at nearly the same point— c«f doivn ; (7) hold the left hand 

 with the Angers and thumb collected to a point, directed horizontally 

 forward, and make several cutting motions with the edge of the flat 

 riglit hand transversely by the tips of the left, and upon the wrist — cut 

 of the ends ; (8) then cut upon the left hand, still held in the same posi- 

 tion, with the right, the cuts being parallel to the longitudinal axis of 

 the palm — split ; (9) both hands closed in front of the body, about four 

 inches apart, with forelingers and thumbs approximating half circles, 



