262 dents, and several more who wish to come but I advised the teacher not to instruct more than forty, believing as I do that, that number is quite as many as any one teacher could do justice by. To day we had quite an excitement in the Indian camp. A notoriously bad Indian by the name of Santa Anna, in company with a No-co-nee, came there on yesterday; not having any visi- ble business, they were told by Ka-tem-e-see to leave immedi- ately, they however continued at the Camp until this morning, Ka-tem-e-see again told them that they must leave, but they de- clined doing so, and said they would remain a few days and rest, he reported the facts and I made a requisition on Lieut. Van Camp for assistance to arrest them. We proceeded to the Camp with nineteen men, and found them quartered in a house origi- naly occupied by a company of soldiers. Lieut. Van Camp had the house surrounded and demanded them, but the Indians refused to surrender them. The Indians who by this time had collected, armed themselves even to the women and children, the house also contained considerable numbers all furious, and determined to fight to the death, Katemesee and his party only amounted to seven who were willing to assist in the arrest. It being the relief day of Lieut. Van Camp, and he not having anticipated the pros- pect of a regular battle, his store of ammunition was entirely exhausted, with the exception of a single round which utterly forbid the propriety of making a fight against such fearful odds, to have done so would have been madness, and the loss perhaps of all his men, he therefore ordered the Indians instantly to leave, and to take with them four or five men from the Reserve, as far as the Brazos, to see that they left the country. This they agreed to, but the escort left in a short time, leaving the two Indians to go at large, who returned in the evening to Kateme- see's gardens and attempted to kill two mexicans who escaped by flight, they would also have killed old "Hawk" a friend of Katemesee's when they first left the Camp, if they had not been prevented by other Indians. The belligerent party numbering some sixty or seventy came to the Agency in the evening to explain their extraordinary pro- ceedings (but with previous threats as I am informed that if I did not talk to please them, they would kill myself and family and join the No-co-nees) they said their object and determina- tion was to do right, that they had no notice of the approach of the troops, or their object, they had been repeatedly threatened with extermination, and were apprehensive the troops had sur-
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