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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
On May 4, Pochemoquiet (Buffalo Hump) arrived at the
council ground with four wives, one brave, and one aged man,
without having seen the messengers sent out last. It appears that
so far as this chief was committed in regard to a meeting, though
now over the time fixed, he was in attendance to fulfill his
engagement.
On the ninth, the Comanches, headed by Mocochopie with the
messengers, numbering in all not exceeding 150, were also in
attendance. Hicks recorded:
Tuesday i2 May. Arrival of Pah u cah &8 other Camanche chiefs,
Kitchies, Wacoes, Witchitaws, & Tewahcanoes appearing about soo in
all, & pitched their lodges around ours, which now appeared like the
encampment of a large army.
All the Indians present to an interview in the shed prepared
for the meeting. All the delegations sat there and Comrs. nearly
in middle. The pipe of Peace was offered by the Comrs. & smoked
by all the chiefs.
Comrs. then informed meeting that they had been sent by the
Prest. to see them & meet them in friendship. They were glad to see
them & thanked them for so full attendance. Interpreter Jim Shaw,
for Camanches. Lewis Sanchez in Caddo & Spanish. Comrs. then
informed them that they would meet them tomorrow and deliver to
them the talk of the F. U. S. at g o'clock. Meeting Adj.26
On the twelfth Pahaucah, Comanche chief, the Wichitas and
their bands arrived, and on the thirteenth commissioners sub-
mitted outlines of a proposition for a treaty of peace and friend-
ship, boundary, and exchange of prisoners and the payment of
annuities. The meeting was as large as was necessary and liberally
represented Comanches, Wichitas with their bands, and Caddoes
also with their bands. According to Hicks:
There was also a 4th party consisting of Tonkawas and Lipans,
but nothing more than the fragments of the tribe, the major part
having expatriated themselves and merged into different Comanche
bands. The linguists were Jim Shaw, John Conner, Del., and Jesse
Chisholm, a Cherokee, all speaking English and Camanche; Lewis
Sanchez, a Spaniard, in English and Spanish, the former rendered
into Spanish to the Cadoe Spanish linguist and then into Caddoe,
at the same time to the Tonkawa and Lipan chiefs speaking Spanish,
and then into their language. For the Witchetaws and Wacoes, & c.,
26Ibid.33o
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