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or Fort Sill without complying with instructions to give up arms &c, as required by the Great Father. As soon as I got this news I got in the saddle and came here to take the Noconies, as prisoners, where they belong. When I got here I met all the Caddoes, Wichitas and Kiowas as friends, I met them as friends. [underline] I sent for the Chief of the Noconies and told him what my instructions were, he promised me to go to Sill. Believing in this fellows word I sent him to his Camp with a guard and as soon as he broke away, my guard fired at him. So soon as I dismounted my troops to go through the Noconic Camp the cowardly, thieving Kiowas fired into the backs of my soldiers. I never was so bothered in my life to know what to do, if they had been all hostile men my course was plain, but I did not want to hurt friends.