52 HISTORICAL TEXTS. 



First Lieut. Thomas F. Wright, Twelfth Infantry. The Sand Hill figiit took place on 

 April 26, and la.sted about three hours; the troops were surrounded by the enemy and 

 lost 21 men killed, 18 wounded, and 6 missing. The Modoe loss amounted to four 

 meu, as supi)osed. 



43, .'). wigA gin for wik4 gen: not far from there they made? another stand. 



43, 4. tdukni waitolan can also mean : "the next day" in tlie Klamath dialect. 



43, 5. Yamakui. Q'he Warm Spring Indians occuj^y, in common m ith Wasco In- 

 dians, a reservation on Lower Des Chutes River, Oregon, and are congeners of the Nez 

 Perc6s, botli being of Sahajitin race. Being the inveterate enemies of the Shoshoni or 

 Snake Indians, the TJ. S. Government formed a corps of scouts from able-bodied men 

 of -that tribe, which did good service in the numerous hard-contested fights with the 

 Snake Indians. At the outbreak of the Modoc war, these useful allies naturally sug- 

 gested themselves as the best auxiliaries against the revolted tribe. Donald McKay 

 organized a corps of 72 scouts and rejoined with them Col. Mason's camp April 10, 1873. 

 A few later accessions carried them up to an effective force of about ninety men. 



43, 8. To taktakldnta supply kiiflatat. 



43, 10. ItipCni taunep, etc. Instead of giving the numbers of killed and wounded, 

 our informant simply gives the number of the survivors. The Warm Spring sconts 

 are not included. 



43, 13. Capt. Hasbrouck, of the Fourth Artillery, was then in command of a 

 mounted battery, and accompanied by Capt. Jackson, in command of B troop, First 

 (Cavalry, and by sixty Warm Spring scouts. 



43, 14. The fight at Dry Lake or Grass Lake occurred on May 10. Thirty -four 

 Modocs attacked the troops at dawn, but were forced to retreat. The troops sustained 

 a comparatively trifling loss. 



43, 15. tunep p6-ula stands for taunep^nta tunep p6-ula: fitteeu. Cf. 40, 1 and 

 Note. 



43, 10. Changes of giammatic subjects, and even their omission, are not unheard 

 of in incoherent Indian speech. Thus Boshtui has to be supplied here between nash 

 and stan6tchna, and the meaning is : " the troops killed one of the retreating Modoc 

 warriors." 



43,17. Pahatko E-ush stands for the more explicit form Pahapkash jG-ush^gi'shi ; 

 cf. 43, 13. 



43, 22. shi'itanka properly means : "to negotiate", but stands here euphemistically 

 for "to surrender". The same is true of gawina, 44, 2, the proper signification of 

 which is "to meet again". 



44, 1. General Jefferson C. Davis was the officer whom the President had, after 

 Gen. Canby's assassination, entrusted with the conduct of the Modoc war. He assumed 

 command on May 2, relieving the intermediate commander. Col. Alvin C. Gillem, of 

 Benicia Barracks, California. 



44, 2. shdt'la kdyaktcha stands for shAtSla kaytiktchtki and was preferred to this 

 form to avoid accumulation of consonants. 



44, 2. laki for Mkiash. When speaking fast, Klamaths and Modocs sometimes sub- 

 stitute the subjective for the objective case in substantives which are in frequent use, 

 u« mdklaks for mdklaksash, 44, 9. 56, 4. ; w^wanuish for wewannishash, etc. 



44, ;>. suude=ginlan, ovei- a week: lit. "a week elapsed". On .Tiiuc 1, 187.'-t Ca[»(. 



