They live upon the Red River, which forms the boundary betwixt North Texas and the Western American boundary, and have been visited by Mr.Catlin, who mentions them in his work.

The Picts are constantly at war with the two other tribes of Pawnees; and though their villages are nearly one thousand miles distant from those of their enemy, their war-parties are continually scouring the country of the "Exiles of the East"-- "_Pa-wah-nejs_."] One point struck me forcibly during my conversation with that noble warrior.

According to his version, the Comanches were in the beginning very partial to the Texans, as they were brave, and some of them generous.

But he said that afterwards, as they increased their numbers and established their power, they became a rascally people, cowards and murderers.

One circumstance above all fire the blood of the Comanches, and since that time it has been and will be with them a war of extinction against the Texans.
An old Comanche, with a daughter, had separated himself from their tribe.