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274 the similarity la the names of the Chief Iskatappe and our guide?

Poor Ysopete! how anxious he is getting, to see his people, and he is only sixty-five miles from home. Aloniso has procured his freedom from the general, and the faithful fellow is no longer a slave, and can leave; when he sees fit; but he tells his kind friends that he prefers to remain with them until the City of the Twenty-four is reached, and this is appreciated, as he can act as interpreter when the Kansas tribe is visited at the City of the Twenty-four.

The map made by Father Marquette 132 years after Coronado was in Kansas shows four villages within thirty miles (estimated) of each other. The westermost is named "Pahatet." (Although a powerful magnifying glass was used to decipher the name on the map, yet there is doubt; the "Pah," or first three letters are plain, but the "a" may be something else; the next letter, "i," is all right; but the last, which is called "t," may perhaps be"i." This explanation is given for educational purposes.) The next town east of the last named is "Maha," then "Pana," and nearest the Missouri "Tontanta." The four towns range nearly in a line east and west. The map made by Du Pratzs, eighty-four years after the reverend father's, only gives "Panis, Mahas or White Panis," in about the same locality as the first four named. This is further west; this same map also designates the district around where these two towns are situated as the "Country of the Panis." Prom a reliable source it is found that the Kansas Indians' name for the Republican river was "Pa-ne-ne