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Show to give to all. He seemed much pleased/with the kindness and attention shown him, and promised that no difficlties should occur to the whites so far as he was concerned, that he and his band would not only treat them with kindness but that they would render them any assistance in his power. Too-Kee-moh, and his band I claim the country adjacent to 1000 Spring Valley, and west as fas as the Humboldt. When I arrived on the Humboldt, I met with various staggling parties of the Shoshoni tribe, who belong to a band under the Chief Ne-me-tekah (Man eater) whose band numbers about 500. I lay by two days and sent two of his sons and several of his braves, I found him quite an intelligent Indian, noble in appearance and a very particular friend to the whites. He had never permitted any of his band to disturb the whites; and told me that there were bad Indians on the Humbodlt, that they would sometimes steal from the whites, but if they did not cease their depradations by the whites, he would collect his band together and make them. I gave him some presents which he received very friendly, gbut told me, he did not take them as pay for his friendship, he was a friend and always had been to all the whites who travels the road, that as his great father, the Big Captain of the Whites, (meaning the president) had sent them to him, it made his heart glad and he would never forgetit. He sent two of his braves with me, sue, Paut-wa-araute (the drowned man) who has a separate band of about 200 occupying the country around and about the first crossing of the Humboldt, and directed them to find a chief, a friend of his, who resides near Stony Point, called )h-hah-guah (Yellow skin) who has a band of about 450, also of the Shoshonie tribe. They accompanied us the village, but Oh-hah-guah^s |