pcople. We are at peace with them, but ner- er have mixed with them. Our fathers and their fathers before they ther are our them have lived in these mountains, and have raised corn in this valley. We are taught to make mescal, our principal arti cle of food, and in summer and winter here we have a never- failing supply. At the White Monntains there is none, and without it now we get sick. Some of our pcople hare been in at Goodwin, and for a short time at the White Mountains; but they are not contented, and they all say, " Let us go to the Aravapa and make a final pcace, and never break it."

"I told him I had no authority to make any treaty with him, or to promise him that he would be allowed a permanent home here, but that he could bring in his band, and I wonld feed then, and report his wishes to the Department eommandor In the mea time runners had been in from two other small privileges and giving the samne reasons I made the same reply to all, and by about the 11th of March I wrote a detailed acconnt bands, asking the same I had over three hnndrcd here. of the whole matter, and sent it by cxpress to Department Head-quarters, asking for instructions, having only the general policy of the Government in such cases for my guidance. Af ter waiting more than six weeks my letter was returned to me without comnent, except calling my attention to the fact that it was not bricfed properly. At first I put them in camp, about half a mile from the post, and counted them, and issued their rations every sccond day. The number steadily inereased until it reached the number of five hundred and ten.

"Knowing, as I did, that the responsibility of the whole movement rested with me, and that, in case of any loss to the Government coming of it, I should be the sufferer, I kept them continually under my observation till I came not the faces of the men, but of the women and children. They nearly naked, and needed overything in the way of cloth ing. I stopped the Indians from bringing hay, that I might only to know were