Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-12-28

and to wind up they cut off my hair and
commenced TO cut up my face, or what
YOU might call it. to tattoo me. l object
ed SO strongly that they stopped it, but
they managed to put a brass ring through
nv nose. This ] wore during my ten
years captivity. was made warrior
and went out with them on all their war
and marauding expeditions across the
Mexican border, and several times came
near losing my life while fighting the
Apaches and Pawnees. All told my BODY
bears seventeen bullet and arrow wounds.
Removing his boots, the Captain exhibited
to the reporter five buck-shot mdentures
in his right leg, and three or four gun-shot
and arrow wounds in his left limb. II re-
NAMED with the redskins two years before
was made warrior. About six months
after this event, while hunting alone in
the mountains of Lower Sonora, heard
the breaking of a twig not far from where
/ was standing. cooked my rifle, think,
ing it might be cinnamon bear. did
not hear the sound again. but instead saw
the cause of it in the shape OF a big raw
nee warrior who stood partly concealed IN
a clump of chaparal about 200 yards dis
tant. We looked at each other fully live
minutes without drawing bead; sudden
lv he raised his gun and fired at me with
out taking aim. jumped to the right and
escaped, still keeping an eye on the Paw
nee /; he lodged around, but | soon let him
have it square in the head and scalped him.
When nearing the lodges | got two ash
poles and stuck the ends of each into the
ears OF the scalp-it's the style of the
Comanches TO take ears and all-and
marched into camp.
Five minutes later seven hundred war
riors, headed by Old Wolfe, whom the
United States soldiers and Mexicans well
know to their sorrow, surrounded me, and
such shaking of hands and huggin never
experienced before. The Chief the next
morning gave me his third daughter as a
bride. BY our marriage ! have seven
children, "Where are they now ?" que
ried the reporter "Oh, they're running
wild on the plains," replied the Captain,
laughingly. He said that in the fall OF
1847, after numerous fights with United
States soldiers, during which he tried to
escape, (rather dubious the Comanches
concluded to sell him and another white
prisoner named Kirker. Thus after ten
years of captivity. he was taken to Fort
Bent, and was sold to Col Sumner, of the
0bAeA SdNhiiy' hC SdPtiih -" as
ed for six yards of fed flannel, one pound
of tobacco, and string Of beads kirker
was sold for eight yards of curtain calico
and pound of Missouri tobacco. After
being ransomed, the Captain sought the
had removed. and, heartbroken, he re-
Mexico, where he joined Placidia La Vega
,,,h ss n ~ ct In Cbnrah A.
the conclusion he made his way to Chihua-
( hua, and was employed by Governor An
glesters to fight the Apaches at the rate
$50 per scalp. With thirty Mexicans,
during six months, they raised ninety
scalps Becoming Disguised with the
Mexicans, he again cast his fortunes with
Old Wolfe and the Camanches. He con-
tinued fighting with them two or three
wears against other tribes, and when the
French invaded Mexico he repaired to
Chihuahua and was made lieutenant of
artillery in the Liberal army, by Benilo
Juarez, and participated in the battles of
Los Membres, Maxataian, Zapick, Santa
go, Esquantito, Sierra Aleger and various
others, down to Queretaro, when Maxi
milan surrendered. AT the close of the
war he again visited his Indian home, and
growing tiIeu VI liiat opoei0oo vi eAistCheo'
determined to live in future among civil
lied people. His faith, however, in hui
mainly has been terribly shaken since he
has been in Gotham, as he lost $3.50 in
greenbacks at a place of public amuse
ment a few evenings since, and he has
changed his mind con siderably. He
speaks fluently the dialects of seven diff
ferent tribes-Castillian and half Monte
yuma, the language of Northern and New
Mexico and Sonora. He is probably the
only white man that can aid the historian
in translating them Neso York Times