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White Cloud's request, who seated themselves in the room where the talk was to be 

 held. 



CATHOLIC CLERGYMAN'S REMARKS. 



The pipe was lit and passing around while one of the reverend gentlemen stated the 

 views with which they had come to visit them, and asked the Indians if it was perfectly 

 convenient and agreeable for them to hear what they had to say, to which the chief re- 

 plied in the affirmative. The reverend gentleman then proceeded with his remarks 

 upon the importance of education and religion, the nature of which the reader can easily 

 imagine and save the time it would require to record them here. To these the chiefs 

 and all the party (excepting Jim and the doctor, who had fallen asleep) listened with 

 patience and profound silence, as the pipe was passing around. The reverend gentle- 

 man having finished, the war-chief took a few deep-drawn breaths through the pipe, 

 and passing it along, said: 



THE WAR-CHIEF'S REPLY. 



"My friends, I speak for the chief who is here, and not very well. My words are his 

 words, and the words of all our party. "We have heard what you had to say because we 

 had promised to do so. 



" My friends, we have talked many times on this subject, and some of our talks have 

 been Ions; but at this time our words will be few, for we are weary, and as we have be- 

 fore said, we are poor, and our wives and children are hungry, and we have come over 

 here to try to make some money to get them warm clothes and food to eat. (How, how, 

 how ! ' 



"My friends, many of our children are now in schools in our country, and the good 

 book which is in your hands is in their hands at this time. We believe that the Great 

 Spirit has made our religion good and sufficient for us if we do not in any way offend him. 

 We see the religion of the white people dividing into many paths, and we cannot believe 

 that it is pleasing to the Great Spirit. The Indians have but one road in their religion, 

 and they all travel in that, and the Great Spirit has never told them that it was not 

 right. 



' ' My friends, our ears have been open since we came here, and the words we have heard 

 are friendly and good; but we see so many kinds of religion, and so many people drunk 

 and begging when we ride in the streets, that we are a little more afraid of white man's 

 religion than we were before we came here. 



' ' My friends, the Indians occupied all the fine hunting grounds long before the white 

 men came to them, but the white men own them nearly all now, and the Indians' hunt- 

 ing grounds are mostly all gone. The Indians never urge white men to take up their re- 

 ligion, they are satisfied to have them take a different road, for the Indians wish to enjoy 

 their hunting grounds to themselves in the world to come. (How, how, how !) 



" My friends, we thank you, and shall wish the Great Spirit may be kind to you. I 

 have no more to say. ' ' 



Thus ended the conversation this time, and the Indians all rising (except the doctor, 

 who was still asleep) shook hands with the clergymen and retired to their own room. 

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JIM AND THE DOCTOR PROCURED ENGLISH GENTLEMEN'S SUITS AND PROMENADED 



IN LONDON. 



The amusement of "trying on" and "getting the hang" of the new dresses made 

 merriment enough for the party for one day; and all but these two were quite willing 

 to forego all the pleasures they could afford rather than cover their cool and naked heads 

 with beaver hats, their shoulders with frock-coats, and substitute for their soft and 

 pliant moccasins and leggins of buck-skin, woolen pantaloons and high-heeled boots. 

 The two wiseacres, however, who had adopted them were philosophers, and knew that 

 they were only for certain occasions, after which they were to be dropped off, and their 



