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Show APPENDIX TO PART II. The Chcveux Blanche requested me to inform you that there is a murderer (an \.)~ag-e) in his village, who killed a Frenchman on the Arkan aw; but owing- to the great dissentions and schism of the Arkansaw faction, he is fearful to deliver him up, without some of hjs friends havi11g- agreed to it, ami his authority being strengthened hy a .formaL demand from you, when he assures me he shall be hroug;ht down a prisoner. lnclecd the Cheveux Blanche appears to be very delicately situated, as the village on the Arkansaw serves as a place of refuge fol' all the young, daring, and tliscontented; und added to whic h, they arc much more regularly supplied with ammunition, and, should not our government take some steps to prevent it, they will I'Uin the Gt'and village, as they at·c at libet·ty to make war without resu·aint, especially on the nations who are to the west, and have plenty of horses. The chief says he was promised, at \Va shj u ~ton, that these people should be brought back to join him; hut, on the contt·ary, many of his village arc emigrating there. Owing to the difllculty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry rctums from this place. In dcsccndin~ the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you. I last evcnir)g took the census of the Gt·anu village, and found it to be- ~len 502 lloys : 341 \Vomen and Girls 352 Total 1695 Lodges 214 The express waits, which I hope the general will accept a~ an excuse for this scrawl, having written him fully on the 28th and 29th inst. I am, deat· general, Your ever sincere friend and obedient servant, (Signed) z. M. PIKE, Lt. Gen • .T. JVilkin~on. APPENDIX TO PART H. 4.5 [ No. 13 . J Pa•wnre R rjJub /ic, ht Oct. l SOG. Sm, " 'E arrived het·e on the 25th ult. aftct· a tedious march of 37:, miles, the distance (as I conce ive) being- very much augmented by the O sag·cs, who accomp:mied us, lc <Hi ing- us too far to the south, owing to their g r·eat fear of the Kans. vVc suffered considcrabl} \\'ith thirst, but our guns furnished us amply with buffalo meat. 'V e de li vcr cd in safety to the chief the two young Pawnees who had lately vi:;itcd \ Vashington, and caused to he explained to the nation, the parole which th y bore from the president of the United States. Ot1 our ani val, we found the Spanish and Americnn n~g-s both <-xpancled in the village, and were much surprised to learn, that it was not more than three or four weeks, since a party of Spanish troops (whose number were estimated by the Indians of this town, at 300) had returned to Santa Fe; anti further l<'amt that a large body of troops had left N. 1\lexrco, and on their march had met with the vil lagers of the Pawnee .i\Iahuws, who were on one of t heit· semi-annual excursions; that they encamped together, and entered into a treaty, bm after· this the Pawnc<'s raised tllcir· camp in the ni g ht, and stole a hll'gc portion of the Spuniarcb' horses. This circum<;tancc indueeel them to halt on the Arkansaw with the main body of the troops, and to srncl forward th e party who appeared at th is village; who proposed to this chief to join n pany of his wa ninr·s to thcit· troops, march to and entirely destroy tltc vill~1ge of the Pawnee l\Iahaws; this proposition he had pnrdrnce enou g-h to reject, ulthotrg-h at war with that nation. The Spanish ofTtcer inform<:cl him that his su pcriOJ ·, who remained at the Arkansaw, had marched fr·om Santa Fe, with an intention of entering into a treaty \\ith the following nations of Indians, viz : The Kanscs, tltc Pawnee Republic, the Urand Pawnees, Pawnee L oups, Otos, and 1\lahaws; und had wiLh him a gt·and medal, cotmni:.;sions, and foUl' mules lot· each ; but by the stroke of the Pawnee.: Muhaws, the plan was disconce rted, except only as to this nation. The commissions arc dated Santa 1-'c, 15th June l80G, and signed g:ovemor general, &c. &c. or New :Mexico, and run in the usual style of Spanish commis~ions to savages, as far as 1 was capable or judf~ in~ of their contents. The chief ftu·tltcr informed me, that the of1iccr who commanded said party, was too youn~ to hold councils, &c. that he had only |