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learned tliat lie had fired at and wounded the bear whose pre- 

 sence caused me to he tripped up, and had followed it to the 

 river, where he lost it. Presuming that it had crossed over, he 

 made a rai't of a tree which extended partially across the river, 

 by pushing 1 the top oil' the bank ; and seating- himself on it, near 

 the middle, the current swung 1 the lighter portion around suffi- 

 ciently to enable him to get to wading ground, and then to the 

 shore. On reaching the opposite side he heard the dogs giving 

 tongue some distance below him, and hurried in their direction, 

 but before he could overtake them they had driven their quarry 

 across the stream, and followed it over. Not being able to re- 

 cross, owing 1 to the want of facility and the depth and strength 

 of the current, he went hunting on his own responsibility, and 

 managed to secure a deer before he joined a party of Indians. 

 lie excused himself for leaving me on the ground that he did not 

 see me fall, and mistook the report of my gun for an effort of 

 mine to bag bruin, and seeing him, a splendid male, bounding 

 away, he forgot everything 1 in the desire to tumble him over. 

 The explanation seemed plausible enough, and nothing further 

 was said about his deserting a friend in distress. 



The young brave, known as Mo witch, or the Deer, who had 

 proved a benefactor to me, saw that the animal which g-ave 

 me the wound was brought in, and when the preparations for 

 the feast were made, he skinned it and gave me the hide and 

 head, supposing that I would be glad to keep them as 

 mementoes of the occasion. I wondered at this considerateness 

 on the part of an untutored Indian, as 1 had never before seen 

 one of the race manifest it, but I learned subsequently that he 

 was well educated, having- been brought up in a Mission 

 School, and that his teacher had taught him the lessons of 

 kindness which had made him even then famous in his own 

 tribe for goodness. He could speak English well when he 

 chose to do so; but it seems that he would not utter a 

 syllable of it if the pale-faces with whom he came in contact 

 spoke Chinook or his own dialect. The cause for this ] did 

 not learn, but my own experience among the red races living 

 between the Missouri Kiver and the Pacific Ocean, and 



