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 ment, incessantly ui-geJ the advantage of a civilized occupa- 

 tion of his countr}^, bought for him everything that caught 

 his fancy, heaped up presents for his wives, promised that a 

 white man's house should be built for him and furnished ex- 

 actly as he liked, hinted darkly at the war power of the Great 

 White Chief, and said that while he lived the Great Father 

 would give to him many bags of Mexican dollars yearly ; 

 Hole in the Day gave in, shook hands with the President, and 

 came back to persuade his bands that the white chief and he 

 were brothers, and that Red and White were to be one in 

 heart. 



Poor ' Hole in the Day '; the residence s'tipulation was 

 carried out, his wives living in the kitchen and he, the 

 brother of the Great White Chief, received visitors in the 

 large parlor, the walls of which were nearly covered by 

 mirrors, the tiuor furniture consisting principally, it is said, 

 of many rocking chairs. A few months later he was shot by 

 an Indian of one of the treaty bands, on whom the truth had 

 dawned that his tribe had sold their heritage for less than 

 they could have obtained by the trapping of its furs. 



Crow Wing was the point to which from St. Paul the mas- 

 teis of brigades frequently teamed with wagons a portion 

 of their cartloads to save the heavy sand road down the 

 eastern bank of the Mississippi. At Crow Wing the carts 

 were finally loaded, it being a work of thought and care to so 

 apportion the cart-loads that one should not carry all the heavy 

 goods and another all the light; where, also, the cart covers 

 of raw beef or buffalo hide securely fastened on and the long 

 slow journey commenced, the money not spent at St. Paul 

 was generally got rid of here in necessaries for the trip of 

 over a month, and in presents for the loved ones at home. 



One part of the equipment of a number of carts in a 

 brigade was a long and strong rope for river crossings and soft 

 places which a light travelling cart ti'aversed safely with an 

 extra spurt on Blackie or Bichon's part, but which were for- 

 midable obstacles for loaded carts, especially at the steep 

 bank of a slippery and muddy river crossing. In such places 



