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summer of 1792, the Ayches and Adaes attacked bands of Choctaws who
had entered their areas. On July 6 and again on August 16, de Blanc in-
formed Carondelet that war had broken out between "the Ayches and
the Adayes Indians of the province of Texas" and the Choctaws.8 Late
in August two Choctaws who had been fighting with the Adaes passed
through Natchez district on their way home, and Governor Gayoso de
Lemos learned of the affair. He elicited more information from Ytela-
ghana, one of the chiefs who had approved the Treaty of Mobile in
1784. On September 27, he wrote to Carondelet:
I have just learned, through unofficial sources, that the Adaes Indians and
all their neighbors are assembling, and getting ready to make war on the
Choctaws; I do not know the motive. I surmise that it was for the purpose
of obviating the effects of this quarrel, that Ytelaghana, as he told me,
thought of going this winter to the other side of the river with forty or more
warriors to carry a message to the Adaes Indians, in which were expressed
the Choctaws' desires to arrange their differences in a friendly manner.9
Ytelaghana obviously understood that forty or more warriors would
make his proposed negotiations more effective. The Choctaws main-
tained that they wanted peace with western tribes, but it was always
peace in which they gained the advantage. They desired to hunt with-
out molestation in lands of other tribes and for that Ytelaghana shrewd-
ly sought Spanish support. He urged that Governor Carondelet should
write to the commandants of posts "on the other side of the river" and
request them to advise Indians of their districts to maintain good rela-
tions with the Choctaws and to "regard them as brothers." Gayoso de
Lemos transmitted this message to Carondelet and recommended that,
if Ytelaghana actually went on his proposed mission west of the Missis-
sippi, he should be accompanied by some Spanish official who could
advise and direct him. In his opinion, Lieutenant don Estevan Minor,
his own adjutant-major, would be admirably suited for such a mission.'0
On October 18, 1792, Carondelet wrote to de Blanc directing him to
assist any official who might accompany Ytelaghana in making peace
with the Texas tribes. He instructed him to "explain to those nations
on that side that they ought not to take it ill that the Choctaws hunt in
those lands . . ." De Blanc replied that whenever the official and the
8De Blanc to Carondelet, Apr. 16, Dec. 1, 1792, ibid., 26 (first quotation), 99-1oo (second
quotation).
9Copy of letter from Manuel Gayoso de Lemos to Carondelet written in Sept., 1792, and
included in Carondelet to de Blanc, Oct. 18, 1792, ibid., 92-93.
lOIbid.352
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