. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. advance of the soldiers werekilled by the Kiowa and their horses captured, butwith the loss of Adalhabakia. Abandoning their camp, the Kiowafled, but returning a few days later, they found the soldiers still thereand succeeded in killing another. On account of the number of largeAmerican horses captured by the Kiowa in this encounter the streamwas afterward called by them American-horse river. The party encountered by the Kiowa on this occasion was the TexanS;nita Fc expedition, and the fight o
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. advance of the soldiers werekilled by the Kiowa and their horses captured, butwith the loss of Adalhabakia. Abandoning their camp, the Kiowafled, but returning a few days later, they found the soldiers still thereand succeeded in killing another. On account of the number of largeAmerican horses captured by the Kiowa in this encounter the streamwas afterward called by them American-horse river. The party encountered by the Kiowa on this occasion was the TexanS;nita Fc expedition, and the fight occurred on August 30, 1841. Thewhole story as given by Kendall corresponds remarkably with theIndian account, which was obtained without any knowledge of thejuiiitcd statement on the part of either the author or his informants,having been handed down orally for over half a century. The affairoccurred, as already stated, on the edge of the Staked plain while theparty was searching for Bed river and near a stream which Kendallcalls the Quintufue. Several days x>reviously the expedition had met. Fig. 85—Winter 1841-12-Adalhabjikia killed. 278 CALENDAR HISTORY OF THE KIOWA [ a number of Kiowa, wbo had acted insolently, and were apparentlyresponsible later on for several missing horses and mules. On tlie IStli the Texans had crossed the stream and come suddenlyupon the main camp of the Kiowa, who tied at their iijjproach. Scarcely liad we unsaddled our horses and turned them loose beloic one of ourhunting parties came in and reported that a large body of Indians were in our imme-diate vicinity, and that they had driven off an ininieiise cavaUiula or drove of another party arrived with information that they had met a small body ofIndians, one of whom spoke Spanish. They said that they were Oaygiias, and oubeing interrogated concerning the direction towards Santa Fo, gave equivocalanswers. They pointed to the southwest, however, to what appeared a jjassageth
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