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did not wish him to go on with us. He told me before this that the Mexicans on the other side of the Rio Grande were all bad men. He left my camp very mad because I would not let him have a horse and because I talked so hard to him. He did not buy any horse from me nor any of my people. Directly after we left Washington we lost a horse and near Independence we lost another, and at the San Antonio Crossing we lost two horses, and as we were coming along a white man shot the best dog we had, but "Bedie" [Bead Eye] and myself told our men that we must not do any harm to the whites but when we got to the Trading House we would tell the Agents and they would send down, and try and get our horses back. The night after we left the Spaniard we lost two horses at the San Antonio Crossing. What I have told you is all the talk I had with the Spaniard, And what he has told are all lies This is all I know concerning him My talk is Done. "Vicente's Talk" The Spaniard told me that the white people had stolen all of his horses and that they were bad people and after we had come on a little way a white man killed one of our dogs, and he then said to me now don't you see that the white people are bad? The then told me to wait until we got up to the village and he would write a letter to the Mexican Govt, and he asked me what was the reason the Indians up in the country did not join the Spaniards and come and kill the white people. He told me at the time the dog was killed, we ought to come up and raise the Indians and that he would assist us, as he was a sort of Captain among a good many of them and make war on the whites I replied to him that we were all now friends with the whites and I did not wish to hear him talk in that way. The Spaniard told me that he had just got a letter from the Mex- icans and that they were close by, and the whites were nearly frightened to death on account of it and that he was in a great hurry to get up among the Indians so as to get them all ready to assist the Mexicans in killing the whites. He did not tell this to Red Bear but told it to me because I could talk in his own tongue and understand him. This is all I know of the Matter. [Endorsed] Talk of "Rend Bear'' and Vicente
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