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Tell them the treaty I propose to make with them will be based upon the demands I have already made; and the object, in addition, will be a permanent peace.

Mr. Calhoun. Tell them they are lawfully in the jurisdiction of the United States, and they must respect that jurisdiction. Interpreter. They say they understand it.

Mr. Calhoun. Tell them that, after the treaty is made, their friends will be the friends of the United States, and their enemies the enemies of the United States.

Tell them, when any difficulty occurs between them and any other nation, by appealing to the United States they may get redress.

Are they willing to be at peace with all the friends of the United States?

Interpreter. They say they are willing.

Mr. Calhoun. Tell them that, by the treaty which it is proposed to make with them, all trade between themselves and other nations will be recognised as under regulations to be prescribed by the United States. Colonel Washington. And the object of this is to prevent their being imposed upon by bad men.

Interpreter. They understand it, and are content.

Mr. Calhoun. Tell them, if any wrong is done them by a citizen of the United States, or by a Mexican, he or they shall be punished by the United States as if the wrong had been done by a citizen of the United States, and on a citizen of the United States.

Interpreter. They say they understand it, and it is all right.

Mr. Calhoun. That the people of the United States shall go in and out of their country without molestation, under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the United States.

Interpreter. They say, very well.

Mr. Calhoun. Tell them that, by this treaty, the government of the United States are to be recognised as having the right to establish military posts in their country wherever they may think it necessary, in order to the protection of them and their rights.

That the government of the United States claim the right to have their boundaries fixed and marked, so as to prevent any misunderstanding on this point between them and their neighbors.

Interpreter. They say they are very glad.

Mr. Calhoun. For and in consideration of all this, and a faithful performance of the treaty, the government of the United States will, from time to time, make them presents, such as axes, hoes, and other farming utensils, blankets, &c.

Interpreter. They say it is all right.

The several points of the proposed treaty having been explained to the chiefs to their satisfaction, Narbona, the head chief, and Jóse Largo, both very aged the former about eighty, and the latter about seventy-voluntarily signed powers of attorney, by which full authority was granted to Armijo and Pedro José, two younger chiefs, to act for them at Chelly in the proposed council, in the same manner and to the same extent as they would do were they present.

The council breaking up, Sandoval harangued some two or three hundred Navajos, ranged before him on horseback-the object, as it occurred to me, being to explain to them the views and purposes of the government of the United States. Sandoval himself habited in his gorgeously colored dress, and all the Navajos as gorgeously decked in red, blue, and white, with