14 UISTORIOAL TEXTS. 



Pen snaw^dsliasli hii'iik shguyue : "at nii k'lewi sbisliii'kash, slili'- 



Again wumnn this he sent: "now I quit fighting, m<;et 



fitanksli sliana-iili p'kxiki'rtham palpdlisli sliil k'-lirule%au/' Vundpni taunap 



in cnmicil I <k' ft ire God's white flag raising. Forty 



3 pen nadttligslidpta m4klaks sliu-utauktpa. Laki p'na hunk shii'ldshasli 



and eii Indians nuit (him) in council. The com- hia eoldiern 



maudt^r 



liiliaslnuilxan shu'ldshrish sliapiya: **stalakislitak a nilsli paksli, mdklak- 



placinji in anibuMh, to I ho soldiers Siiid : "having 61Ied when I iho jtipe, thfi Mo- 



sliasli tashuitak ! " Maklaks hunk ndniik wawapkan shu-1itanko'tkish= 



docs jou attjick!"' Tho Mod. <s all seated of gi-ncral coiinciI= 



6 paksh paka, shlishlidii'kiu i-Jil;^a nanuk nte'sh. Buslitin laki pdkshtga 



the pipe smoked having unslrung bad laid all bows. The com- with (his) pipe 



down American mander 



Mkpeks shuy^ga; pakshtga shuyeg6tan shikenitki'shtka shiddshash yute- 



ashes lifted up; with the pipe wbiie lifting rip with piftols tlie sfildiera coni- 



tampka, at nanuk niAkkiks nge'slia. Boshtin nanuk m4klakshash shuenka; 



meuced to then all ilodocH (ihev) were The Americans all Modocs killed ; 



fire, wounded. 



9 tiinep toks kshi'ta. 



five however escaped. 



NOTES. 



13, I. There is no pretense that the nuiuher of years given hero is accurate, and 

 the .slight ditlerence existing between the two dialects proves that the separation of 

 the tribes is of recent date. The separation never was a thorough one, for even the 

 latest raids made on the Pit Eiver Indians were made by Modocs joined to Klamath 

 Lake Indians under the same war-chief. The Kumbatuash lived on southeastern end 

 of Tule (or Ehett) Lake, California. 



13, 1 and 3. For iUola at, "years elapsed now", Klamath Lakes would say: illolfila, 

 or illololatko. 



13, 4. KA-iu m. sheUualsht refers not only to a period anterior to the Modoc war of 

 1873, but to the massacre of a party of eighteen white settlers, emigrants to Northwest- 

 ern Oregon, by Modoc warriors, who had watched them, lying in ambush, on the eastern 

 beach of Ehett Lake. This terrible wholesale butchery of defenceless whites was the 

 immediate cause of Captain Wright's massacre in the ensuing year. 



13,6. Sh4tash, etc. The informant intends to say : Americans, immigrating to the 

 Eogue Elver or WilWmet Eiver VaUey, di^agged to death an old Modoc squaw behind 

 theii- wagon, thinking her to be a Snake squaw; they did so in retaliation for a robbery 

 committed by Snake Indians on their party, and for murders peri)eti-ated on immigrants 

 by the same Indian tribe. 



13, 9. An article in the " Overland Monthly''^ of San Francisco, July, 1873, i)age 21, 

 signed Wm. M. Turner, gives the following particulars concerning Wright's massacre : 



In 1852 a train of eighteen emigrants attempted to reach Oregon by the Ehett 

 Lake route. They had encamped for dinner at the eastern shore of Ehett Lake, under 

 a blutf since called "Bloody Point". Suddenly the sage-brash around them stood in 

 a blaze of fire; they started up In terror, and were at once surrounded by swarthy 

 and painted savages, who greatly outnumbered them, and dealt out the deadly blows, 

 which destroyed their whole numbers In inconceivably short time. One man aloiio 



