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Camp Far West - Letterbook of Captain Hannibal Day (1849-1851) (8 pages)
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Page: of 8
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Sth t Hay, "TREO.
Sir,
For the information of the Comdge. Goneral of
Department, I Fg the honor to report the following
transactions indian affairs, occurring since those
narrated in ay nat ter of the 15th inste
fhe Indfang in continuation of their depredations
subsequent to tho destruction oP the Hoit property, RLlicd
aman by the nome of Chorles Mott, who was pagaing un the
road with a loaded tean & drove away his entitle, plundtor ing
the contents of the wayon. Rs party of sone twenty five
white men were organized on ne 17th at Nhehola 9 on Feather
River and procec ded under ¢ tho sanction “ covm-and of Gen.
Groon, our Non, Senator of Califoriia and (said te bo) a
Major "General of “Mal ibta Also, and made a fora, & sesute
into the hilis * suece ded in’ routing one or two non of
Indians, killing two or three & wounding pronobly tulece
that meibor, but made no oD? isoners execnt 9 or 10 veren fy
Syhaequenvly ‘two e defs vere
iniueed to com: down also and I am told that sous kind of
troaty om arrangement wos negotiated with then ty whieh,
for tho time ot Lenst, a12 hostilities are to ecane a
Jos
proba “ly quiet may be "paints ing Gd unl
oceur of an unnecessary & wenton att
on the nativose
ry
esa soe re ctition
sek mide by the miner
Hy Com-and, as before reputed, beings so reduced
ond broven down as tor Sdelent for ay
sory! ise other than 2 camp cuird © f tarce men over mudiic
peer oy and two convict deageters, i have beon unadle to
take ony active measures in the foreco tng cises = and
finding apparently that such duties ware authorized or
gesured by funetioniries of the . state ywve not de hed any
interfe ‘ence on ny part nece sary,
hat no authorized ascent of the Tatar Departnent een “be
found in tits t ‘yoitory, to in estirate & attend to thotr
interests, b ‘th-of the "gontile™ Ind4ons and_the waite
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no-ulition fast driving them from “their usual huntiny groundse
I think thet much trouble micht yet be er ncss
‘on both sides and very gr at difficulty in anything like
negotiations with the Indians, fron areal 1 oh
hove no conmon head or chief and so little natdonall V5
living, 4% world seen, in small bands under, each, s potty
chief. or cones ond thoush generally on good terns with
each other, yet éonfining thensolves to the hills &
pomta ths. they ar. always at anmity with those who renain
Be tho wigs ae and carn 2 subsistence by labor at the rancihics
the sctileors.
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