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 *tappe replied. "I will take word back to the Pawnee, about this Pike."

"Who is your head chief?"

"He is Charakterik—White Wolf."

"Where does he live?"

"In his town of the Pawnee nation on the river of the Pawnee Republic."

"Tell him that after we have marched east and talked with the Comanches and cleaned the foreign traders from the country, we will march north and visit him at his town on the River Republican. If the American chief Mungo-Meri Pike comes there, the Pawnees must stop him; for the great king will be angry if the Americans are allowed to pass through."

"I will tell him," Iskatappe promised. "It is best that we travel fast. We came down on foot, for we are very poor. If we have horses to ride back on, we shall travel faster."

"Bueno—good," answered the Spanish chief. "Your father the great king of us all is generous to his children. You shall have horses, so that you may carry the news quickly."

This night the Iskatappe squad slept in the Spanish camp, and ate frequently. Rich Man explained to Old Knife and Wolf what had been said to him