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si,own was apparent, and I was obliged to hire an expr:;i-:•; t1.l send from the party of traders, allowing him fifteen dollars for this trip, which Conner paid in goods, I giving him a memoran- dum for the amount. I do not think it should be paid by the Govt. as I consider it was the duty of Shaw or Conner to ham gone, more especially as they had sent away without my consent two of the commission, who otherwise would have performed the service. 5th. Early this morning the second chief with a considerable body of his warriors visited us, after smoking and a short consultation presents were made them and we invited to move our encampment to their village wl1ich was assented to, upon our arrival we were cordially re- ceived by the wives of the chief who moved out all his baggage and placed his tent at our disposal. We moved in but find'ing it to be insufferably hot and that A-cah-quash and his wife had also taken up their lodgings there. I had my own tents spread and found ourselves more comfortably situated. Our position was in the town next door to the Chiefs own abode while our indian escort were camped on a Creek a few hundred yards distant. We were thus placed I presume for greater protection until the arrival of the Chief. The second chief treated us very kindly but I noticed I thought, in his conduct a distrust of some of his people. The encampment was in the open prairie on the bank of a small creek and covered a surface of about half a mile, the chiefs tent was at one end of it, and to the tents in its immediate vicinity we had access if we desired it, but the Chief would not permit me to visit the other end of the village saying "it was not good" making at the same time the action of scalping-I observed also that the Warriors occupy'ing those lodges did not come near us while the others thronged our quar- hrs from morning tiff 1light. From Pah-hah-yuco's immediate household we received every attention it was possible for them to bestow. Our Delaware did not find the trade so good as they anticipated. It appeared the Cheyenne and Kickapoo had been among these indians and traded for mcsc of their disposable mules and skins. On the 7th the runner returned and reported that the chief would shortly arriYe. About 10 oclock he made his appearance escorted by three more wives and a party of warriors. '3econd-Eye ~.nd Harry also returned with them, A-cah-quash as usual on such occasions introduced us
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