Note 120 — Chapter II · GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SLAVERY.

Ten Kate’s above-quoted statement applies also to the Kioways. Möllhausen met with two young Mexican prisoners among them, a man and a woman. The young man declared, that he did not want to exchange his present abode for another. The woman, though married to a chief and mother of a young chief, expressed the wish to return to her own country; but the chief would not let her and her child go120. We may suppose, that the same state of things prevailed here as among the Comanches.