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in their direst need, a great light would be seen
moving on the waters of the Columbia, and the war-
chief would come back in a canoe of fire to lead
them to victory as of old.
Dire and awful grew their need as the days went on; swift and sweeping was the end. Long did the few sur/ivors of his race watch and wait for his re turn, but never more came back Multnomah to his own.