AN INSTANCE OF HEROIC GALLANTRY. 2 
blankets, deposited with his feet to the fire, a stake driven down near his 
head, and strings of shell-beads stretched from it to his ankles, knees, 
wrists, elbows, ete. hese strings of money exercise the same magical effect 
on the valetudinary savage that a gold “twenty” does, placed in the palm 
of the doctor, upon the dyspeptic pale-face. The cunning Esculapian adjusts 
the distance of the stake, and the consequent length of the strings, accord- 
ing to the wealth of the invalid. If he is rich, then by the best divining 
and scrutation of his art the stake ought to be planted about five feet distant ; 
if poor, only one or two. After he has powwowed sufficiently around the 
unfortunate person to make a sound man sick, or deaf at least, he appro- 
priates the money. 
One day in early spring seven Indians and a young squaw of this tribe 
set out in a small boat to cross the lake, near the upper end, and the boat 
was capsized three miles from land. They righted it, but as the lake was 
rough they could not bail it out, and while full of water it would not sup- 
port more than one person. The men put the girl in and held on the edges 
of the boat, supporting themselves by swimming until exhausted and 
chilled through by the cold water, and then dropped off and sank one by 
one. ‘They showed no thought of disputing the young woman’s exclusive 
right to the boat, and she was saved by their heroic self-sacrifice. 
