32 HISTORICAL TEXTS. 



28, 2. g^pkapsb, formed by syllabic elision from gepk^pkash ; cf. 29, 19. 



28, 2. sdkatla, to come up, to arrive by the frail. 



28, 3 and 1. T\(5\v;:liiks pi'hi, the old v. oiuen only ; the younger ones, on whom priu- 

 ciixilly devolves the work of wokash-gathering, found time to escajx- in their canoes 

 from the raiders. 



28, 4. k'lewidsh.''ipka. The men had gone fishing to distant places, leaving their 

 females in tlie camp, not apprehensixc of any hostile attack. 



28, 8. kilo's, or kilii's, is the epithet given to "Dry-Leg", the Snake chief; it means 

 a bold lighter, leader of a fighting band; literally: "irate, wrathful", and may be here 

 taken as an equivalenf (o "war-chief" (sessalolish laki). 



28, 1. '5. Moadoki'sh, apocopated for IMoadokisliash ; also 28, 1: wcwanuish {\\6- 

 wau'sh) for wewanuishash (shliiA gi^pkapsb). Na'lsh tchi'sh, its also; that is, we of the 

 Klamath Lake tribe, were gatliered by Mr. Perit Huntington into one district, the newly 

 established Klamath Reservation. A large nundjyer of the Lake People were then .>;cat- 

 tered about Klamath Marsh, which is visited by them now in snumier only for lishing, 

 gathei-ing wokash and berries, and for hunting. 



28, 14. Dave Hill, now interpreter (luldatkish) at the Klamath Lake Agency, took 

 a part in this short but interesting expedition, in the capacity of an Indian scout. He 

 fixes himself tlie date of it by the words "tina illololatko", or a full year after the 

 Indians had been gathered on tlie Reservation by ]\Ir. Perit Huntington. The treaty 

 was concluded on October 14, 1S64, and (he campaign was undertaken in 180G by a small 

 body of American troops for the purpose of bringing back to the Reservation a band 

 of Snake Indiaiis who had run away from it. This unruly tribe, jealous of its former 

 independence, has left the Reservation even since then, and could only after much 

 exertion be induced to return. The fights took iilace west of Warner Lake, and north 

 of the border-line between California; and Nevada, within the former haunts of these 

 westei-n Shoshouis. 



The Report of the Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1807, page !)!) sq., 

 mentions this expedition in the following laconic terms: "October 27, 1800, troops 

 consisting of 21 men. First Oregon infantry, and five Indian Klamath s(;outs, luider 

 Lieutenant Oatman, and 27 men, First Oregon cavaby, under Lieutenant Small, had a 

 fight with a band of hostile Snake Indians near Lake Abbott [should read: Abert], in 

 the Klamath country. Southern Oregon. The Indians had so chosen their position 

 that the troops were obliged to dismount to attack them. The fight lasted one and a 

 half hour, and 14 Indians were killed and many wounded." 



On page 100 of the same Report, another fight against Snake Indians is spoken of: 

 "Late in November, 1800, in a confiict between the troojis and Snake Indians near 

 Fort Klamath, 10 Snake Indians were killed by the troops, and three more by the 

 friendly Klamath and Moadocs who accompanied them." This may have been the same 

 fight as the one above, reported with much less accuracy of detail. 



29, 3. Spaish Valley, name corrujjted from Surprise Valley. This ^'alley is situated 

 in the northeastern angle of (Jalifornia, and on the shore of its two alkali lakes several 

 American settlements have sprung uj). A few Snake Indians live peaceably around 

 Fort l>idwell, which is located at the northein extremity of the valley. 



29, 10. talaat t/alamti'tal,consonantic assimilation for talaak t;^alamti'tal, dui' west.. 

 29, 17 and lit. mVts, natch, for na'ls, na'lsh, na'lasb, us; n^.ts a gepksi, for ua'lash 

 a g6pkash i. 



