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yet come in, we have strouding, lead, calico etc., but not as many presents as we expected to give them. We will now sign the Treaty." Article 2nd and 3d, in relation to boundary line is stricken out and the Treaty signed. 1 Houston "The government wishes you to trade here, and their object is that you may not hear bad talk, at the Trading House you can get things cheap, and you can get all you want, one nation will talk against another; for that reason I want you to trade with the people of Texas. I suppose you would not like to trade at San Antonio: trouble once grew up there between the red and the white people. On that account I want to establish Trading Houses up among you." Comanche Chief "I do not think that my people will go in that direction, there are many bad indians traveling through th'ere, the Kiowa are now at war with your people. I shall stay on this river and in this directio·n." Houston "Cannot you keep the Kiowa away from my people?" Chief "They are more powerful than the Comanche and we fear them." Houston "If you should know them to be coming, send a run- ner, with a white flag, to tell my people at San Antonio, be- cause, if the Kiowa come in, the people not knowing, will say they are Comanche. ,ve thought .you all one people." Chief "There are nine different tribes who have not yet made peace; the Kiowa, Lipan, Chians, [Cheyenne] Arapaho, Charatahar or Dog-eaters, Yamparika or Root-Diggers, Ce- anaro, Shoshoni or Snake Indians, and the Pornemohaws. Houston "Cannot you make peace with these tribes so as to keep them from troubling us?" Chief "The Kiowa are at war; I think the others will make 1 [Articles omitted by President Houston at the Treaty with the Comanche at Tehuacana Creek] Art. II. They further agree and declare, that a line shall run between them, separating the hunting grounds of the white and red man; over which neither party shall pass without permisaion from the President or some agent on the line. Art. III. They further agree and declare, that the said line shall be marked, and run from the Red River with the Upper Cross Timbers to the Comanche Peak-from thence to the old fort of San Saba, and from thence in a Southwest direction to the Rio Grande. The chiefs or the Indians shall accompany those who mark the line.
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