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during- a trip I was making 1 with a party of Indians who 

 were on their way to a pow vow of their tribe, which was 

 called to meet a newly-appointed agent and hear his state- 

 ments. The band which I accompanied consisted of twenty 

 men, with their squaws and children, and many horses, and 

 that was commanded by a now famous sub-chief, who was 

 said to be equally great in the hunting-field and on the war- 

 path. Our route led over vast treeless prairies and densely 

 wooded hills, until the evening 1 of the second day, when we 

 reached a mountain four or five thousand feet high. Selecting 1 

 a beautiful glade for a camp site, the tepees were soon erected 

 bv the squaws, mine being 1 pitched a short distance to the 

 rig-lit of the front line. In this I placed little delicacies not 

 used by the red men, namely, biscuits, condensed milk, tea, 

 coffee and sugar, and some biscuits, and left them there con- 

 fidently, while I accompanied the braves on a hunt after deer, 

 as we had no fresh meat for dinner. When we returned late 

 in the evening we found the squaws and children in a state of 

 commotion, and on inquiring the meaning of it learned that a 

 male grizzly had visited the camp during their absence in 

 search of wild roots and fruits, and had destroyed several 

 parcels of dried beef, torn some of the tents, and killed two 

 combative curs. 



On hearing this I rushed to my icpcc to see if my little stores 

 were injured, but on reaching it I was disgusted and enraged 

 to find all my delicacies either eaten up or trampled into an 

 indiscriminate mess on the ground. The cans of condensed 

 milk, a bag of biscuits, and all the sugar had been devoured, 

 and the other articles were strewn about in the mud, so that 

 they were of no use to me. On seeing this condition of affairs 

 1 called on the chief, and learned from him that several of his 

 tribe had lost all their pemmican, and were actually without 

 any food, except the few roots and berries gathered by the 

 squaws, and their share of the venison just brought in. All 

 were so angry at the action of the burly prowler that they 

 decided to have his head if possible; but For fear he would visit 

 the camp during the night and inflict any more damage on 

 the remaining food, or on man and beast, tliev concluded to 



