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my quarters in various attitudes. Some standing, 
others sitting on benches, while the larger number 
adopted the common Indian position of sitting on their 
haunches with their knees drawn up before them, 
clasped by their hands. Had there been room to lie 
down, that posture would have been preferred. They 
came professedly as advocates of the woman’s cause, 
and would listen to nothing but the unconditional 
delivery of the murderer, preferring their demand 
with considerable eloquence. Three or four would 
start upon the same point together, and he who could 
talk the fastest would be allowed to go on with the 
subject. As in the former controversy with these peo- 
ple, the arguments between the chiefs and myself were 
taken down. I began by addressing them through 
Mr. John C. Cremony, the interpreter of the Commis- 
sion, as follows : 
“ I feel sad, as well as all the Americans here, and 
sympathize with our Apache brothers for the death of 
one of their braves. We w^ere all friends. The dead 
man was our friend, and we regret his loss. I know 
that he had committed no offence ; that he even did 
not provoke the attack upon him. But our Apache 
brethren must remember that it was not by the hand 
of an American that his death was caused. It was by a 
Mexican, though a man in the employ of the Commis- 
sion. For this reason it is my duty to see justice done 
you, and the murderer punished. 
“ I am here, as I have told you, in command of the 
party engaged in making the dividing line between 
the United States, the country of the Americans, and 
Mexico. I have explained this to you fully before. 
