188 NOTES TAKEN. 
CHAPTER XIV. 
CAMP ON CLEAR FORK OF THE BRAZOS. 
Sub-chiefs arrive Incidents with the chiefs.—Story of the German settlement. 
—Exploring the country.—Se-na-co and party arrive.—Deseription of the 
Naroni 
his costume.—Camanche women.—Camanche lance and shield. ray the . 
Indians.—Toilette of the men described.—Indian dance. —Dressing skins.— 
eld.—Presents distributed—Women bathing.—Plan of hardening 
horses’ hoofs.—Little Mexican—Indians leave-—Remarks upon traders.— 
N, ae Tee Sa OR es ee eee ge eee +3 
Move ‘omni : é 
Avevst 14th—When Major Neighbours sent out runners 
to the Camanthes, he intimated to them the plans of the 
government, and they in reply expressed their wish to be set- 
tled upon the Clear Fork, as it was their old hunting and win- 
tering ground. Ke-tum-e-see having corroborated this state- 
ment—preparations were immediately made to explore in the 
vicinity of camp, but about ten, a. a., just as the party were 
about to start, two sub-chiefs of Se-na-co’s band rode in to 
hold a talk. Their names were Qua-ha-we-tah, or tall tree, 
and Oti, or hunting a wife. The latter was by birth a Tonka- 
way, but was taken prisoner by the Camanches when a child; 
he had adopted their habits and tribe, and become a chief 
among them. Both were tall, powerful, athletic men, very 
Savage in their appearance, scantily dressed, and fully 
