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immediately, to unbridle, unsaddle and tether his horse, for of 
course, he disdained the smallest labour or assistance to her. 
The principal use the wild Indian makes of his wife or 
wives is to wait upon him, she takes his horse and attends 
to it when he halts, saddles, bridles and brings it up. when he 
wishes to ride, cooks his meals, puts up the temporary 
lodge or shealting, and dresses what skins may be obtained 
in the chase, in fact, does all the manual labour necessary in 
their wandering life. 
Her lord lounges, sleeps, drinks, smokes, eats, fights, 
hunts, and not unfrequently, rewards her with a sound 
drubbing, the only extra physical exertion he ever makes. 
In the afternoon, the old chief made us a visit. He was full 
of affection for the whites, and showed us a certificate of 
character, (no doubt written by some worthless scamp, as 
we ascertained the old fellow to be a most arrant knave 
and horse-thief,) from which we learned his name to be 
Ak-a-quash. 
He was.very importunate in his begging propensities, and 
not at all modest in his demands, as the sequel proved. - 
He wanted meat, tobacco, flour, coffee and sugar, not salt 
meat cthes, for that he got at Belknap ; and taking up some 
yellow sand in his fingers, he said, “ Belknap suker so.” 
Moning that he wanted white sugar; pretty well for a wild 
Indian, living the precarious life they do. We told him he 
must be satisfied with what he could get, not. what he wanted, 
and he did not refuse what we besa ai 
