Genealogy and recollections . ld. McCauslin then sent for the interpreter, and theIndians asked one hundred buckskins for me in merchan-dize. The interpreter asked me if I would give it? I toldhim I would. The Indians then went to the traders housesto receive their pay. They took but seventy bucks worthof merchandize at that time. One of the articles they tookwas bread, three loaves, one for the Indian that claimedme, one for his wife, the other one for me. I saw directlythey wanted me to go back home with them. After a littlewhile they started and motioned and told me I must gowith them. I re
Genealogy and recollections . ld. McCauslin then sent for the interpreter, and theIndians asked one hundred buckskins for me in merchan-dize. The interpreter asked me if I would give it? I toldhim I would. The Indians then went to the traders housesto receive their pay. They took but seventy bucks worthof merchandize at that time. One of the articles they tookwas bread, three loaves, one for the Indian that claimedme, one for his wife, the other one for me. I saw directlythey wanted me to go back home with them. After a littlewhile they started and motioned and told me I must gowith them. I refused to go. The Indian fellow took holdof my arm and tried to pull me forward. I still refusedgoing with them. He still continued pulling and his wifepushing me at the back. We went scuffling along a fewyards till we got before my friend McCauslins cabin discovered the bustle and asked me what the Indianswanted. I told him they wanted me to go home with asked me if I wanted to go. I told him no. He then [154]. Swimming Pools at New and Old Ranchos APPENDIX told me to walk into his cabin and sit down and he wouldgo and bring the interpreter. I went in and the two Indiansfollowed me into the cabin and sat down. The interpretercame in immediately and asked the Indians what theywanted. They told him they wanted me to go home withthem. The interpreter then asked if I wanted to go withthem. I told him no. He then told the Indians they hadsold me and that they had nothing more to do with me,that I was a freeman, that I might stay where I then said they had not received all their pay. The in-terpreter then asked them why they did not take it all?They said they expected I would go home with them andremain with them until I got an opportunity to go interpreter then told them they could get the balanceof their pay. They said if I did not go home with themthey must have thirty bucks more. The interpreter askedme if I was willing to give it. I told him
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