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also the one of 1843), but were permitted to sign the new one
as a matter of frontier courtesy and impartiality."9
To judge by their joint report, the commissioners were well
pleased with what had been done. One notes, however, that they
failed to call attention to the fact that this was the first treaty
that had been made with the Wichitas, nor did they remark upon
the absence of Pa-ha-yu-ca and his Comanches.40
Immediately after the break-up of the council, the agent, Paul
Richardson, accompanied by ten rangers and Jack Harry, the
Delaware, left the Council Ground for the purpose of receiving
the Keechi prisoner and the horses which the Indians had prom-
ised to give up.41 On December 6, the agent returned to the Post
bringing the prisoner and three head of horses.42 The incident
is important in showing that the Indians were carrying out their
part of the contract. It furnishes some evidence of their good
faith.
This narrative should end here, and it would but for an episode
which followed close upon the treaty. We have seen that the
council ended in "peace and harmony" on November 16, and by
the end of the following day the Council Ground at Tahuacarro
creek. was almost deserted. The commissioners and the super-
intendent had returned to their respective stations, the agent and
ten rangers had gone into the Indian country to receive the
horses and the prisoner, and the Indians had departed to their
"The Treaty of 1844 (Gammel Laws, II, 1191) shows that the Wacos,
Tahuacarros, and Keechies signed the treaty. The names of the chiefs
are not in all cases identical with the names given in the last treaty.
"oReport of Terrell and Smith to Secretary of State E. Allen, November
17, 1845. The two commissioners were probably not familiar enough with
Indian affairs to make a comprehensive report. They probably intended
to leave that to the superintendent, Thomas G. Western, who was present
at the council, but who did not join the commissioners in the report.
"'Minutes of the Council, November 15, 1845.
"'Williams to Western, December 7, 1845. Jack Harry seems to have
been a most obstreperous individual, who was as troublesome as he was
indispensable to the whites. He had tried Eldredge sorely on the expe-
dition of 1843, and his conduct was no better on this trip with Richard-
son. At the Aquilla creek the party stopped to kill game. Jack's mule
got away and returned to Torrey's, followed by Jack, badly out of humor.
He reported that the party was in disorder and that the agent would
not furnish him a mount either to go forward or to return. The truth
was that Jack had wanted to borrow agent Richardson's saddle horse,
and because his request was denied, the Indian came in and made the
unfavorable report. See also Williams to Western, November 23, 1845.166
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