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killed, fully three quarters of the tribe having joined Peggee, 

 the war-chief, against Tendons orders. 



I slept in his lodge one night and he lent me some buffalo- 

 robes, and I am sorry to say that it took me several days to 

 get rid of what he supplied me with. I tried to induce him to 

 give up wearing the high hat, but could not succeed in doing 

 so ; it had been smashed several times, and I took it off his 

 head and sat on it, telling him that he was a fine Indian 

 without it, and a scarecrow with it on. This last word, 

 however, he did not understand, but replied : cl Me like um, 

 me ; a good white man give um, and me wear um ; " and he did 

 not mind my having sat on it in the least. 



Bowles told me another story of him, showing how unlike 

 most Indians he was. On a former visit to the Judith Basin, 

 one of his men had hidden himself in the stockade one night 

 before the gates were closed, and waiting until everyone was 

 asleep he cut out the parchment, which formed the window of 

 the trading-store, and began to get in. Bowles happened to be 

 sleeping there that night, and the noise waking him he fired, 

 killing the Indian so instantly that he remained half in and 

 half out of the window. Knowing that the man's relations 

 would make a blood-feud of it, and that unless something 

 could be done at once to prevent it he was as good as dead, 

 he went to Tendoi and related what had happened. The chief 

 told him to bury the man and that he would put the matter 

 straight ; so early in the morning he summoned all the Indians 

 in camp to a council, and when they were all assembled he 

 stood up and told them that a member of the tribe had 

 disgraced it by trying to rob a friend of their chief's, that he 

 was dead, and that from that time his name must be forgotten 



