LAST OF THE POTTO WATTO MIES 

 way-worn. Their presence required a prompt 

 explanation, as they might belong to some mer- 

 anders in that vicinity, who might give trouble. 

 The young Indian made the pretext of friend- 

 ship but he might be the spy of a hostile band 

 who were meditating an attack on them, but 

 what means this pretty young girl who is with 

 him. War parties are never encumbered with 

 women and the faded condition of their horses 

 to some extent allayed their fears, as it was 

 evidence that they were on a long and severe 

 journey. Old Kill-buck interrogated him as to 

 his object and destination and learned that he 

 was a Pottowattomie and a remnant of the 

 tFibe of the Kankakee and Wabash Rivers, and 

 who had been taken captive about a year before 

 by the Sioux, and was carried away by them to 

 their villages up in the northwest until a chance 

 to escape to his own tribe presented itself. The 

 young girl with him was Sioux, for whom he 

 conceived a fondness while among her tribe. 

 The attachment was not only mutual but that 



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