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blood-money owed by my race to his ; yet I find no 

 trace of gratitude in my analysis of his character. 

 He seems to be composed, selfishness, five hundred 

 parts ; nil admirari coolness, five hundred parts ; 

 a well-balanced character, and perhaps one not likely 

 to excite enthusiasm in others. I am a steward to 

 him ; I purvey him also a horse ; when we reach the 

 Dalles, I am to pay him for his services ; but he is 

 bound to me by no tie of comradery. He has cau- 

 tion more highly developed than any quadruped I 

 have met, and will not offend me lest I should resign 

 my stewardship, retract Gubbins, refuse payment, 

 discharge my guide, and fight through the woods, 

 where he sees I am no stranger, alone. He certainly 

 merits a "teapot" for his ability in guidance. He 

 has memory and observation unerring ; not once in 

 all our intricate journey have I found him at fault in 

 any fact of space or time. He knows "each lane and 

 every ally green'* here, accurately as Comus knew his 

 "wild wood." 



Moral conceptions exist only in a very limited degree 

 for this type of his race. Of God he knows somewhat 

 less than the theologians ; that is, he is in the primary 

 condition of uninquisitive ignorance, not in the sec- 

 ondary, of inquisitive muddle. He has the advantage 

 of no elaborate system of human inventions to unlearn. 

 He has no distinct fetichism. None of the North 

 American Indians have, in the accurate sense of the 

 term ; their nomad life and tough struggle with in- 

 structive Nature in her roughness save them from such 

 elaborate fetichism as may exist in more indolent climes 

 and countries. 



Loolowcan has his tamanoiis. It is Talipus, the 

 Wolf, a "hyas skookoom tamanoiis, a very mighty 

 demon," he informs me. He does not worship it ; 

 that would interfere with his devotions to his real 

 deity, Number One. It, in return, does him little 

 service. If he met Talipus, object of his superstition, 



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