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camp, bringing four of the captains, and said that the other three having been sold to the "Sioux", were at a distance but he had sent to recover them and would bring them in as soon as possible: that this council of Chiefs had decided to do as he should think best, and that he had determined to go with a delegation of chiefs to Denver as Major Wynkoop had proposed - trusting in his good faith to protect them in their return to their own people if they failed to secure peace. "Black Kettle" and seven other chiefs - representing all the tribes assembled at Smokey Hill - with their families, numbering about fifty persons, went, under this arrangement, to Fort Lyon with Major Wynkoop's command, and the Chiefs went thence with him to Denver where they held a council with Governor Evans. Before entering into council with the Chiefs, Gov. Evans told Major Wynkoop, in reply to his earnest advice to make peace with these Chiefs, who had so far acted in good