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Show APPENDIX TO PART ll. The Cheveux lllanche requested me to inform you thn.t there is a murderct· (an Osage) in his village, who killed a Frenchman on the Arkansaw; but owing to the great disscntions and schism of the Arkansaw faction, he is fearful to delivet· him up, without some of }1is friends having- agreed to it, and his authority being strengthened by a for7Jial demand from you, when he assures me he shall be broug·ht down a prisonct·. Indeed the Cheveux Blanche appears to be very delicately situated, as the village on the Arkansaw serves as a place of refllge fot· all the young, darin g , and dis~onte.ntcd; and added to which, they arc much more rcgulal'ly supphed w1th ammu· 11ition, and, should not our govemment take some steps to prevent it, they will ruin the Grand village, as they are at liberty to make war without restraint, especially on the nations who are to the west, and have plenty of horses. The chief says he was promised, at vVashing ton, that these people should be brought back to join him; but, on the contrary, many of his village are emigrating th ere. Owing to the difficulty of obtLlining horses, Mr. H enry retUJ:ns from t11is place. In descending the Mississippi I will request h1m to pay his respects to you. l last evening took the census of the Grand village, anti fonnd it to be-lVIen 502 Boys : 341 \Vomen and Girls 852 Total 1695 Lodges 214 T he express waits, which I hope the general will accept as an excuse for this scrawl, having written him fully on the 28th and 29th inst. I am, dear general, Your ever sip cere friend and obedient servan t, (Signed) Z. M. PuE, Lt. Ucn. J . Tfrilkinson. ,. APPENDIX TO PART II. [ No. 13. J Sm, l'a7unre Rl11llblic, lst Oct. 1806. \VE arrivecl here on the 25th ult. after a tedious march of 375 miles, the distance (as J conceive) being very much augmrnted by the Osages, who accomp:.mied us, l cadin~ us 1oo far to the south, o~ving :o th cit· great fear of the Kans. \ V e su fl'cred considerably Wlth th1rst, but our guns fumishcd tiS amply with buffalo meat. \Vc dclivctcd in safety to the chief the two young P awnees who hncl lately visited \Vashington, and caused to be explained to the nation, the parole which they bore from the president of the United States. On om an·ival, we fou ncl the Spanish and American ihgs both expanded in the vilbg·e, and were much surprised to Jearn, ... that it wa3 not more than three o t· foUl' weeks, since a party of Spanish troops (whose number were estimated by the I ndians of this town, a1 300) h~cJ retu rned to Santa Fe; and further leamt that a large body of troops had left N. l\1 xico, and on thcit· m arch had met with the vil] aget·s of the Pawnee lYi ahaws, who were on one of their semi-annual excursions ; that they encamped together, and entered into a u·e,Lty, but aftc t· this the Pawnees raised their camp in the nig-ht, and stole a large portion of the Spaniard!:>' horses. This circumstance induced them to halt on the Arkamaw with the main body of the troops, and to send forward th t: p arty who appeared at this vil l:.~g-e; who proposed to this c hief 10 join a party of his warriors to their troops, m~rch to and entirely destroy the village of t ltc Pawnee Maltaws; tl:ts pt·oposition he had pntdrnce enough to r ject, alt hough at war \~tth that nation. The Spanish oflicer informed him that his supcl'l? t·, who remaiuecl at the Arkans<;w, had m arched from Sant,t Fe, With an intention of enteri11g into a treaty with the following uations of Indians, viz : The Kanscs, the Pawnee Hepublic, the Grauel Pawnees, Pawnee Loups, Otos, and Mahaws; a11d had with him a gt·and medal, commissions, and fom· mules foe each; but by the stt·oke of the Pawnee .Mahaws, the plan wus cli~conccned, cxc pt only as to this nation. The commissions arc dated Santa F e, 15th June 180G, and signed p:ovemor genet·al, &c. &c. of New Mexico, anti run in the usual style of Spanish commissions to savages, as far as I was capable of jud~ing of their con tents. The chief further informed me, that the ofli cer who commanded said party, was too young- to hold councils, &c. that l1e 1H\d ouly |