266 VISIT OF INDIAN CHIEFS. Book II. 
your features like an Indian, not to betray the humour of 
the thing, — an indiscretion which might have disagreeable 
consequences. 
On this occasion of the visit of the Comanches to our 
camp, beside a number of inferior people, the chiefs To- 
ho-pe-te-ca-ne, or the " White Tent" and Way-ya-ba- 
tosh-a, or the M White Eagle" came to pay their respects. 
These names, and their translation, are copied from the 
vouchers which these grand personages presented to us. 
After these came an older man, distinguished as much by 
his noble mien as his simple dress. The latter consisted 
merely of a blue woollen blanket wrapped round his body. 
His hair was cropped short, after the fashion of the whites, 
and no ornament of any kind was visible. He was accom- 
panied by a Mexican prisoner, who acted as interpreter, 
and told us that this was the great chief Okh-akh-tzo-mo, 
who had come to visit us ; and the reason he appeared in 
this simple dress and with cropped hair was that he was 
mourning the death of his son, whom the Pawnees had 
killed, and for whom he had not yet been able to take 
blood-revenge. The two younger men had appeared in 
our presence in the full attire of Comanche warriors, 
clothed in leather, with richly-ornamented mocassins, their 
faces daubed with red paint, and their heads ornamented 
with eagle's feathers ; their thick and long plaited hair 
hanging down their backs, loaded with silver plates, grow- 
ing smaller downward, — in the neck of the size of a 
saucer, at the end of the plait as large as half a dollar. 
These silver plates are made in Mexico expressly for the 
Comanches, and are an important article in the trade with 
these savages, which is carried on at the Presidio del Norte, 
at San Carlos, and at the Presidio del Rio Grande. At last 
an old man came into our camp who wore, over his Indian 
