The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 51, July 1947 - April, 1948 Page: 328
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there to give out the "broken days." These were little bundles
of sticks given out to the leaders of bands, who threw one away
each day until the approaching visible end of the bundle told
them that the time was at hand to begin their movement to the
rendezvous.
On March i8, as visiting Indians struck camp and started for
home, the Comanche chief, Pahucah, mounted on his mule,
beckoned to Hicks, whom he fondly embraced before departing.
William Shorey Coodey was now too ill to attend to the business
of the commission and on the nineteenth departed for the Cher-
okee Nation.28 Within the next day or two a number of Lipans
and Tonkawas joined the commissioners. As it was now under-
stood that the actual making of the treaty was to be deferred
until May, the whole commission took its departure for the
Caddo Village to put in the month, while awaiting the arrival
of the Comanches. Here they were joined by the Chickasaw dele-
gation with whom they shared a meal of broiled buffalo meat so
hard and tough that it had to be hammered with a stone before
they could eat it. During the next three weeks little constructive
work was engaged in, though at their permanent camp on the
Brazos near Barnard's trading house the commissioners were
engaged in building camps and stockades and purchasing sup-
plies for the anticipated meeting. On April 25 the commissioners
dispatched Jack Harry and two other Delaware messengers to the
Colorado River with a message to the Comanches reminding
them to meet the commissioners as agreed upon. This day was
made more interesting by the eclipse of the sun. Delaware mes-
sengers were again dispatched to the Comanches near the source
of the Washita River, who returned assurance to the commis-
sioners that they would be on hand according to agreement on
May 12.
About this time white people of Texas brought to camp a
number of Comanche girls, prisoners of the Texans. These weep-
ing girls, said Hicks, were restored to their people, to the great
joy of all concerned, except the protesting girls themselves, who
had lived among the whites long enough to become attached to
them and their way of living, and to speak the white man's
language.
23Cherokee Advocate, April 16, 1846, p. 3, col. 1.328
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