[516] Previously called antimony. See p. 355, note 1.
[517] After leaving Cicuye (Pecos) the army marched down the river for four days, crossed the stream over a bridge that they had built, and then reached the Staked Plain of Texas by travelling first a northeasterly then a southeasterly course. See Pt. 1, chap. 19.
[518] The Rio Colorado.
[519] That is, if the writer overlooks the settlements (one of them called Cona) in the ravines of the headwaters of the Texas streams, about the eastern escarpment of the Staked Plain, previously mentioned.
[520] The salt lakes near the Texas-New Mexico boundary. Further allusion to these salt lakes is made in Pt. 1, chap. 21.
[521] The well-known travois of the plains tribes. The poles were those used to support the tents, or tipis, and were usually of cedar.
[522] Some of the tribes of Texas, however, especially the Attacapa and the Tonkawa, were noted as cannibals.
[523] The sign language was in general use among the tribes of the great plains, rendered necessary by the diversity of languages. See Mallery, Introduction to the Study of Sign Language (Washington, 1880); Clark, Indian Sign Language (1885).
[524] The "jerked beef" of the later frontiersmen.
[525] The pemmican of the Indians.