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A KIND AND SENSIBLE INDIAN. 363 that appellation by the rules of warfare), he has made his plans while making toward his friends after get- ting to ^he north side of the Missouri river. It takes but a short time to find some dead limbs in the tim- ber from which a bier is constructed, and with grass put on the sameit ipade a comfortable pallet upon which the stricken man (jould' lay while being carried to the point oji the fiver where the boat was hid. This was done to keep the enemy from knowing of their removal so as to have them remain as long as possible in that neighborhood for the reason it was hoped they would not leave till a party could be bi-ought from the LitUeOaa^e village. Soon after starting ^Wasbashas put to his companions the advisability of having eith- er himself or the other young fellow to leave the boat and go overland on foot to the village; the other two acquiesced, and it was magnanimously pro- posed by our young brave that his friend could have the choice of making the journey or staying in the canoe, and he chose the former, so it was agreed that the canoe should leisurely make its way up stream until a party was brought down the river to relieve them. It is ninety miles overland and the young fellow makes a forfeit with his remaining friend that he will have a party in canoes meet them before the evening of the next day, which means he contemplates d^iiig the ninety miles by the morning, thus running by night; but the one thing in his favor is the fact of there being a well defined trail all the way. It was slow work, one man paddling against the stream, but our young Indian concluded to take it