14 " WHITE CLOUD." 



for which an Indian will do anything, and which they have 

 no means of getting in the Hudson's Bay territories, as they 

 forhid its sale to the Indians. Though never friendly again 

 with Alexander, the chief kept his word, and no harm resulted 

 from this foolish joke. 



This chief showed me sometime afterwards some fourteen or 

 fifteen wounds which he had received in battle, most of them 

 being from knives and arrows, leading his followers to believe 

 that he could not be killed. In consequence of this and of his 

 great courage and strength, his authority over them, even in 

 time of peace, was something wonderful. On one occasion his 

 men were in the Post and had been giving a good deal of 



trouble by quarrelling with the employe's, when Mr. L 



went to "White Cloud" and asked him to order them out. 

 He went at once out into the yard in front of the Post and 

 blew his war whistle, and when his men came running out 

 of the different houses, he simply pointed to the gate in an 

 imperious way, and they were all out in a moment. Happen- 

 ing to go into the kitchen soon afterwards, he found one of 

 his men eating a meal which the cook had given him, on which 

 he picked up a log of wood and knocked him down senseless, 

 remarking that he hoped he had killed him, and this man, when 

 he recovered from the blow, seemed to owe him no grudge. 



Mr. L told me that when the meeting took place at 



which peace was to be made, what was intended for a friendly 

 meeting very nearly ended in a fight. It seems that a Cree 

 warrior, who was not among the number admitted into the 

 council lodge, owed one of the Sioux a grudge ; so, first ascer- 

 taining whereabouts he sat, and finding that his back was only 

 a few inches from the skin of the lodge, he stabbed him in the 



