50 HISTOEICAL TEXTS. 



41,3. shliwalu: to cock a gun; shliwaWlan, after having cocked his gun; flistr. 

 shli.shloal61au, contracted : shlishlol6lan, each man after having cocked his gun. 

 Shiiuiola means to take the string ofl'the bow; to uncock the gun. 



41, 4. B. According to Meacham (Winema, p. 50), Toby delivered these plucky 

 words, pistol in hand, from the top of a rock, which raised her above the heads of the 

 angry mob. 



41, 5. tatd, "whence, fi'om whom", is composed of t4ta"i where? and the interro- 

 gative particle hii. The sentence is incomplete, though intelligible to the Indians; the 

 full wording would be : tatA nfl tfi'mgna, or : tat hA nft tumgndtko gi : " from whom I 

 have heard it". 



41, 7. kaitua sh^yuaksh: "she has not the ability or intellectual disposition to do 

 us any harm." 



41, 14. hak, short for hiik; although rendered here by "this", it has to be taken in 

 an adverbial sense : " this time". The adverb corresponding to the hak of the incident 

 clause is the t^ta in the principal one. 



41, 18. tamd' lish etc. : "have ye made yourselves ready?" 



41, 20. shugulaggi. See Dictionary, s. v. shukfi'lki. 



41, 21. After nush kiinash may be supplied: "I do not want that anybody cast a 

 blame upon me." 



42, 1 etc. The party, on arriving, were greeted by the Indians with extreme cor- 

 diality, and General Canby gave to each a cigar. Eight men were there, instead of 

 the live unarmed leaders, as ]>roniised by Boston Charley. The parts for the bloody 

 work had been allotted as follows: Skoutchish had to kill Meacham ; Boston Charley, 

 Dr. Thomas; Black Jiin, tlic agent Dyar; Bantcho, Eiddle; and if Gen. Gillein had 

 been pi-esent, Iluka Jim would have fired on him. Chief Jack had undertaken the 

 assassination of Gen. Canby. Tlie two other jNIodocs present, completing the number 

 eight, were Shacknasty Jim and Ellen's man. Scarface Charley also appeared on the 

 scene, but not with hostile intentions. The date of the assassination of the Peace Com- 

 missioners is the lltli day of April. 



See full account of the massacre in Meacham's Wigwam and Warpath, and (much 

 shorter) in his Winema, pp. 57-62. 



42,2. hemkankelgi' is probably: hemkanko'la gi: "has to be talked over to the 

 end." 



42, .3. After slil6paktgi there is ellipse of shan^huli, "T desired", or "desii'e". 

 The rights alluded to were such as would be equivalent to American citizenshiyi. The 

 sentence has to be construed as follows: nu shan4-uli ma'lash tidsh ni'ish(-toks) 

 shl6paktgi, w4kaktoIvS, etc. 



42, 4. shkuyuepelitki. Capt. Jack's condition for further peace-negotiations was 

 the removal of the troops from the Modoc country by General Canby. 



42, 7. Modoc tgo iil;^a for Klamath tg(^l;^a. 



42, 9. When Gen. Canby had been killed and stripped of his uniform, he was 

 turned with his face downwards and his scalp taken. The scalp was raised on a pole 

 in the lava beds and dances performed around it, which lasted several days. 



42, 11. Dr. Thomas was killed by a second bullet, which passed through his head ; 

 he was stripped of his garments and tiu'ned upon his face, after his murderers had 

 taunted him with not l)eli('ving Toby's statement. 



