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friend/ Amelu, a young man of 22 years, was in love all the time he 

 was with him, and gave expression to many of the orthodox symptoms 

 of that state in an undoubted fashion. The shamefaced way in which 

 he would answer when asked why he had been away from the tent 

 (in the neighborhood of an Indian encampment) so long the night 

 before was a convincing fact. One evening he asked for a little money, 

 and no amount of coaxing would for a long time induce him to say 

 what he wanted it for. At last, however, in real lover fashion, he ad- 

 mitted that he wanted to buy some article or other to take to his lady 

 friend, who was to put the finishing touches upon it. On this occasion 

 Amelu blushed as much as the redskin can, and that is a good deal. 

 Altogether, as an eminent Americanist once said, the Indian is a man, 

 even as we are men. This the writer knows by actual experience, from 

 the moment of his first arrival among the Kootenays, when halo naiha 

 cumtux (Chinook jargon for 'I don't know') was the only conversa- 

 tion on their part, to the time when he sat with them, round the camp- 

 fire and himself began the story-telling: Kandqe Skinkuts, ' The Coyote 

 was going along.' 



