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Show talk with me on the following morning. Accordingly on the following day a council ring was formed and the same preliminaries were gone through with as those at Scull valley springs. I addressed the chief of the band explained to him the object of my visit, telling him that I had yearned that Tintick had been among his Indians offering them inducements to engage with him in hostilities against the white settlements. He replied that such was the cjse, but that he had not succeeded in getting any of his band to join him believing that Tintick was a bad Indian and that if they listened to him that he would get them into difficulties, steal all the horses and cattle that he could, quarrel with them and then abandon them. I learned from these Indians that Tintick had camped in a small valley called their leader Meadows, that it was well guarded by mountains and cedars and could pnly be approached by a narrow pass, and that it was well adapted for his purpose being well supplied with water and grass, that he had quartered with some of his men, six of whom had left him taking with them fifteen head of his horses and mules about forty head of cattle, that when he found that he could not pirate on any of the western bands to join him he left for the Navojoe country. I gave this chief some presents which he distributed to his band with which he was much pleased and at the same time assured me that they would be received as a guarentee of friendship not soon to be forgotten. I found both of these bands of Indians in a very distitute condition being almost entirely in a nude state |