THE ]\rODOC WAE. 47 



iiiid pliiciii^;- flic ^Moilocs and Walpapi under the managemeut of Commissary J. D. 

 Ai)iiU'gate at Yaneks. This was done to pi'eveut further broils and stampedes of the 

 tribes. On account of his tall stature, which exceeds six feet, the Modocs called Ap- 

 plcgate " Grey Eagle" (p'laiwash), this being the largest bird in the country. 



36, 11. gentalv nu I'ln Agency; Capt. Jack meant to say: "I would go on the re- 

 servation again with all my Modocs to settle there, if I had the certainty of being pro- 

 tected." 



36, 14. A verb like shayuaktan, "knowing", has to be inserted between ge'sh and 

 udi'ini, from wliich ne-ulkiash is made to depend : "he declined to go, knowing that the 

 government had compacted with the Modocs deceivingly", etc. 



36, 15. shlepaktgi could be connected here with pi'sh just as well as with pu'sh. 



36, 17. Subject of shpu'nshnan and of shiukiitki is shiildshash. 



36, 19 and 20. tu'm kshuiuilpash kiiila, "land i)roducing jdenty of grasses (kshun)" 

 for the cattle. The Lost l\iver country contains the best grazing lands in aU Lake 

 County; this explains the unrelenting efforts of the American settlers to get rid of the 

 roaming and sometimes turbulent band of Captain Jack. Could also read: kiiila tii'm 

 kshunalpkash gi'sht shaua-uliiiga. 



36, 20. wewauishash syncopated for wewanuishash. 



37, 1. hi implies the idea of \icinity to their settlements; "on this ground here". 

 37, 2. kiiyak h. : not through arousing their anger. 



37, 3. Major John Green, First Cavalry, was then commander of the troops garri- 

 soned at Fort Klamath, which consisted of < 'om])any I>, First Cavalry, and Company 

 F, Twenty-first Infantry; aggregate present, 4 commissioned otiicers, 99 enlisted men. 

 Major Jackson, of Company B, left Fort Klamath on Nov. 28 for the Modoc camps, 

 near mouth of Lost Eiver. In the attack on the Modocs, Lieutenant Boutelle, who 

 tried to disarm Scarface Charley, had his coat-sleeves i)ierced by four balls. 



37, 7. The Klamath Lake form hishuakshash=shitko is here used instead of the 

 Modoc form hishuatch;^ash=shitko. 



37, 10. All the verbs in this line are reflective verbs, shakiha for Klamath shash- 

 kihan; tdnk for Klamath tankt. 



37, 12. tiVgshta Koke. The Modocs had a camp on each side of Lost River, one 

 of them quite a distance below the other. On Xov. 29, the soldiers and settlers fired 

 across the river at the unprotected lodges of the northern Modoc camp, thus killing 

 about 15 squaws and children, while the j\Iodoc men first retreated to the hills, but 

 I'etm-ned in the afternoon and recommenced the fight. The "doctor's" baud (37, 16), 

 also called Black Jim's band, visited the farms of the vicinity and killed 14 settlers, 

 but did not molest women and children. On the Tule Lake settlement three men were 

 kiUed. 



37, 15. Eleven may be expressed also by Uiish kshikla taunepanta. 



37, 17. hiela can only be used when a plurality of objects is spoken of, and therefore 

 in a better wording this sentence would run thus: ka-i ua'sh gin snawedshash shiuga 

 sha, tatakiash kai hiela. 



37, 18. ktayalshtala. Captain Jack with his warriors and their families retreated 

 to the lava beds. They quartered themselves in the spacious subterranean retreat 

 called Ben Wright's cave, oi-, since the war, "Capt. .Tack's cave", and began to fortify 

 their stronghold. 



