THE MODOC WAR. 49 



where a more regular position of the words would be : shewauapglitki wdtch Modoki- 

 sham Idkiam tubakshSsh. 



39, 15. nia : quite recently, a short while ago. 



39, 15. shash refers to tp6-u and is at the same time the grammatic subject of 

 shewanap'Utki, though standing in the objective case : " give orders to them (viz. to 

 your soldiers), that they return the horses of the Modocs ! " 



39, 17. shidshna. The troops located on west side were only half a mile distant 

 from Jack's camp. The army took up these positions on April 1st and 2d, 1873 

 (Meacham, Winema, p. 45). 



39, 17 and 18. The numbers of men stated here are not quite correct, since there 

 were at no time more than GOO soldiers on duty around the lava beds in the Modoc 

 war, exclusive of the Warm Spring scouts. 



39, 22. p'ndna p'na, to his cousin. Toby was the cousin of Captain Jack, as both 

 descended from brothers. 



40, 1. nda'n p^-ula. td-unep is sometimes through neglect omitted in numbers run- 

 uiug from eleven to nineteen, p6-ula, or any other of the " classifiers", supplying its place. 



40, 3 and 4. Kotice the local sufiBx -na in these names and in tii-una. 



40, 4. kaydktgi is not here verbal intentional, but exhortative form of kd-ika, kd-iha, 

 kaiha, to hunt, pursue. 



40, 5. ni'sh ought to stand after ginti'ltak also : " wOl lie under me." 



40, 6. A new Peace Commission had been formed, composed of the following gen- 

 tlemen : A. B. Meacham ; Eev. Elder Eleazar Thomas, D. D., of Petaluma, Sonoma 

 Co., California; Leroy Sunderland Dyar, acting Indian Agent at Klamath Agency 

 (assumed charge of agency May 1, 1872); and Gen. Edw. R. S. Canby. 



40, 6. h6rakankuish, the spoken words ; -u- infixed gives the form of the preterit. 



40, 8 and 11. shapitak stands for shapiya tak. 



40,9, 10. n6-ashtgi for the Klamath n^-asht gi, na'sht gi, "to agree with"; na'lam 

 t-shisha shanahuli nu ne-dsht gi : I desire to go with God, to act in harmony with his 

 will, to agree with him. 



40, 12. The participle shu'tan answers to our EngUsh : "Nothing doing that day", 

 since both stand for the passive form. 



40, 12 etc. To bring on the desired opportunity for the murder of the Peace Com- 

 missioners, Bogus Charley was shrewd enough to a^ail himself of Meacham's absence, 

 for he knew him to be opposed to a meeting with Indians when unarmed and unattended 

 by troops. He succeeded in capturing the mind of the good " Sunday -Doctor " or min- 

 ister, who was unacquainted with the wily and astute character of the savage, by de- 

 claring that: "God had come into the Modoc heart and put a new fire into it ; they 

 are ashamed for having attempted intrigue, were ready to surrender, and only wanted 

 assurance of good faith." (Meacham, Winema, pp. 52, 53.) Upon this, Dr. Thomas 

 promised that another council of x^eace should be held, and thus, unconsciously, signed 

 his and General Canby's death-wariant. 



40, 13. 19. 20 etc. A quotation of spoken words in oratio recta is more correctly 

 introduced by hem6;fe than by hemkanka, as it is done here. 



40, 15. idsha, idshna, is in Modoc used only when manj' objects are spoken of. 



40, 20. kiya, ki'a, gia. This verb is pronounced in many ways widely differing 

 from each other ; cf ki, 40, 21. 

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