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I believe that the Witchitas, Wacos, Caddos, Penetighka Comanches, etc. who really deserve credit and encouragement for remaining faithful and endeavoring to become gradually self sustaining by raising corn and stock have been constantly neglected. their goods and supplies given to the wild tribes.

All the chiefs met me in an apparently friendly spirit - expressed a universal desire for peace and seemed to think that others would be no trouble if their people regularly received the annuities and supplies which the Government by its treaties with them is pledged to deliver.

The command which accompanied me consisted of parts of the four companies of cavalry under Capt. Walsh and a detachment of infantry under Lt. Jacobs. This proved efficient - the officers and men discharging their duties with promptness and energy - and on the fourth of July the whole force - after a march of about four hundred miles, returned to Ft. Arbuckle in fine condition.

I left that station again on the 6th and in coming here took a new route. Travelling by compass in a North-Easterly course between the Seminole Agency road and the Old road via North Fork Soun?. I made the march in seven days with a Train - the measured distance being one hundred fifty-seven (157) miles, seventy-five (75) between Fort Arbuckle and the junction of Little River with the Canadian eightly-two (82) from that point to this. It was impossible of course to find the very shortest and best on one trip made in haste - but I obtained a good knowledge of the country between the two posts. An excellent road, mostly prairie not exceeding eighty (80) miles in length can with little labor be laid out in a nearly direct line from this post to the Canadian at the mouth of Little River. The Deep Fork and North Fork of the Canadian and the We-wo-Ka, a branch of North Fork are the only streams of any size to be crossed. They are almost always fordable and the WewoKa which has the most crossing and bottom can be avoided entirely by bearing a little East and crossing North Fork below its mouth.