Page:Don Coronado through Kansas.djvu/295

278 278 PAWNEE COURTESY. Pawnees were made for the morrow's entertainment, for he having heard of the" doings in Chief Tatarrax's villages' conld not permit the strangers to be slighted;' bnt Corpnado had informed the chief that he could only reiinain two days, as he must hurry the men homeward, and begged to be excused from partaking in any pf the sports . B ut the chief thought it unfriend- ly: so the commander was compelled as a matter of policy and courtesy to do something: so it was agreed the second day should be when they were to enter- tain the natives. But Coronado felt he had no more struts other than already given, hence had to counsel with the whole of the troop so as to arrange a program.