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Show COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 199 desire to establish peaceful relations with us, I thonght best to nego-tiate with them a written treaty, which, after being read and ex-pounded to them, they agreed to and signed, a copy of which has already been laid before you. They then received their presents nit11 great joy, making Poi-gan, (medicine,) as they term it, which con-sists in a variety of curious ceremonies, in which the body and limbs go through a routine of motions altogether indescribable. At night we were serenaded by a party of 50 or 60 young warriors with songs and dances. Early the next morning the old chief, Nim-ah-tio-cah, came to bid us good-bye. He stood for some time as if in a deep study, and then said he was sorry that his people had ever been mad with the whites, but now their hearts were good towards the white people, and he hoped they would always feel so. The old man wiped a tear from his eyes, shook hands with us, and then put out; and since this interview it is difficult for me to believe that these Indians are so unmanageable as they have been represented to be if properly treated. Gn our return trip we were exceedingly anxious to meet with some Indians whom we had reason to believe were haunting the road bc-tween the Enmbolclt and Eear river. In Thousand Spring valley we saw but one, and had to chase him on horseback before we came up with him. I asked him why he and his people were so wild \?hen I had come so far just to see them and give them presents. He said they were afraid me were Californians and woulcl kill them. I gave him his dinner, a shirt, and some tobacco, and told him to go and bring his people to see me by the time the sun was up next morning. He promised to do so and started off, but we saw nothing more of him nor his people, though we staid till 10 o'clock next day. As we were descending the mountain from the junction of the Sub-lett's cut-off and Salt Lake roads, oneof the party accidentally discov-ered a horse standing, about three miles off, in the caEon of the mountain, and on examining through the telescope I discovered one or two more, and presently an Indian came darting from behind the ~ d a r asn d drove them back out of sight. I sent my interpreter, Mr. A. P. Hanes, with three other men to reconnoitre them, and bring them down if possible. But when the Indians saw them approaching their camp, they seized their bows and began to prepare for an attack, but my interpreter hailed them.in their own tongue and told them we were friends, whereupon they laid down their arms and invited them to cump, and in a short time they all came galloping down to wher we had camped for the night. They were rather a rough looking set of fellows, and I was soon convinced that they had been stealing, for they had four or five head of American horses with them, some with their ears freshly cut. I gave them some presents and told them to come the next morning and bring the squaws and children, and I would give then1 more. They went away highly pleased and the nest morning before sunrise they were all back, about fifty or sixty in number. After dealing out presents quite liberally, I ventwed to tell them that I knew they were bad Indians, and had been stealing horses from the white people. They denied it, but I soon saw guilt in their countenances. I told t,l~emth at I was Medicine and knew very well what they ha4 been doing. At length an old fellow a 5 |