SHOSHONE LAND 



patients had not been strictly kept. There 

 had not been a medicine-man killed in 

 the valley for twelve years, and for that the 

 perpetrators had been severely punished 

 by the whites. The winter of the Big 

 Snow an epidemic of pneumonia carried 

 off the Indians with scarcely a warning ; 

 from the lake northward to the lava flats 

 they died in the sweat-houses, and under 

 the hands of the medicine-men. Even the 

 drugs of the white physician had no power. 

 After two weeks of this plague the Pai- 

 utes drew to council to consider the re- 

 missness of their medicine-men. They 

 were sore with grief and afraid for them- 

 selves ; as a result of the council, one in 

 every campoodie was sentenced to the an- 

 cient penalty. But schooling and native 

 shrewdness had raised up in the younger 

 men an unfaith in old usages, so judgment 

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