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N. W. and were on their way in here. They told us Satanta & Lone Wolf and the Apaches were beyond them still but they did not know the location of their camps. We sent word in by them to Gen. Hazen to keep them here till our return and then pressed on, in five miles finding the camp of the three chiefs names, on a small creek running N. E. thro' the prairie entering the Washita at the "big bend", and there we spent Wednesday night. "Stumbling Bear" was the only chief at home, the camp was of 32 lodges only, all the rest of the tribe "backing" Satanta & Lone Wolf. "Stumbling Bear" accompanied us Thursday morning in search of Satanta and after ten miles of high, hilly prairie badly broken by red gullies, we f[ strike we and f] our course being North [underline], we found the Apaches and Satanta's camp of Kiowas on a small salty creek running crookedly, Easterly, into the Washita. They were six on eight miles from it's mouth and Lone Wolf was camped at it's mouth. All the men were out after buffalo, still high up the Washita, just on the Northern air [underline] line of the reservation, and I only saw a sub-chief of the Apaches. By him I left word for them to come to a general council yesterday, issue day, which was ll I could do under the circumstances. Hearing that Lone Wolf's people were all out hunting also, I did not go to his camp but sent him word to come in with the others.