48 HISTOKrCAL TEXTS. 



37,21, gdta means : camo near (thorn) ; hence gutdmpka : attacked (them). 



37, 21. shellual. The battle of Jan. 17, 1873 was the result of a combined attack 

 of the troops on the lava beds from two sides. Owing to a thick fog, which prevailed 

 through the whole day, the troops had to retreat with heavy losses and without gain- 

 ing any advantages. 



38, 1. tiinkt, although adverb, has here the force of a pre- or postposition in con- 

 nection with g^nuish. 



38, 4. shutdnktgi. The Peace Commission, as appointed by the Secretary of the 

 Interior, Hon. C. Delano, consisted of A. B. Meacham, Superintendent of Indian Affairs 

 in Oregon; of Jesse Applegate and Samuel Case. They met in Linkville on Feb. 15, 

 and were rejoined there by Brigadier-Gen. Edward R. S. Canby, commanding the De- 

 partment of the Columbia, as the representative of the army in this commission. O. 

 P. Applegate was appointed clerk of the commission. 



38, 6. Vulalkshi. The Klamath Lake Indians call that rivulet Kaw6-utchaltko 

 kok^ga, or : Eel Creek. 



38, 7. na'iam kaiiatat : on Califoruian territory ; the place being a few miles south 

 of the Oregon State border. 



38. 12. hassasuakitampka. This interview had not the desired result, and no other 

 authority mentions the conclusion of an armistice. From the second peace-meeting 

 Steele, Fairchikl, and the Piddles returned on March 1 ; they had been in Jack's head- 

 quarters in the cave and found the chief sick. No result could be obtained then nor 

 by any of the subsequent negotiations. 



38. 13. Squire, or Judge Elijah Steele, a pioneer, and citizen of Treka, Siskiyou Co., 

 Cal., in 1864 Superintending Indian Agent for the Northern Disti'ict of California, a 

 steady protector of the interests of the Indians, and therefore most popular among the 

 Klamath Lakes, Modocs, Pit Eivers, Shastis and Wintoons. — Mr. William AtweU, of 

 Sacramento, Cal., correspondent of the ^^ Sacramento Becord" at the time of the Modoc 

 war. 



38, 15. The term palpal=tcholcks=gitko is very little in use among the Klamath 

 Lakes and Modocs, for the Americans are most generally named by them B6shtin, 

 Boshtm miiklaks. 



38, 17. kopa for the Klamath Lake term hushkdnka. 



38, 18. Other forms for ktayat are: ktii-itat, distributive: ktaktiyat, ktaktiyatat; 

 in the Klamath Lake dialect: ktaiksiiksi, distributive: ktaktiksdksi. 



39, 1. g6kish or g^kiash k'lewiudpka : until you will yield to his entreaties; until 

 you will give yourself up to him. 



39,3. Yauiakishash : "The wicked Oregonians " are the white settlers on Lost 

 River. 40, 17, they are called Oreginkni Boshtin. Yamakishash, being the subject of 

 shu^nktgi, has to stand in the objective case. 



39, 10. i).'^illa. The location of the possessive case after the governing substantive 

 (here : wiitch, liorses) is rather unfrequent. The horses, 34 in number, were captured 

 diuing a raid or reconnaissance, which Capt. Biddle, of Camp Halleck (Nevada), made 

 with fifty men of Troop K, First Cavalry, on March 13, 1873. His men met four Indians 

 herding the horses. While bringing the horses to Van Bremer's ranch, on Willow 

 Creek, the troojjs were not attacked. 



39, 11. shewanapglitki. The language likes to form inverted sentences like this, 



