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Rapahos to be approaching, which he deHvered in their own lan- 

 guage, with which he was well acquainted. In a short time the 

 council broke up, and, without noise or confusion, a band of one 

 hundred chosen warriors left the village, immediately after one of 

 the scouts had galloped in and communicated some intelligence to 

 the chiefs. Killbuck and La Bonte volunteered to accompany 

 the war-party, weak and exhausted as they were ; but this was 

 negatived by the chiefs, who left their white brothers to the care 

 of the women, who tended their wounds,- now stiff and painful : 

 and spreading their buffalo robes in a warm and roomy lodge, left 

 them to the repose they so much needed. 



