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THE RED MOUNTAIN OF ALASKA. 
in the rich copper of the mountain ? No, you have not ! 
Here, the great white medicine-man is ready to give this 
to you. See ! " And he held up Flossie's trinket, so that 
the sunlight glinted on the bright metal. 
Several of the squaws started forward eagerly, when 
Peeschee suddenly drew back. 
^'Wait!" he commanded, waving his hand. "1 will 
consult the medicine-man once more." 
He beckoned, and Mr. Dutton came forward from the 
grove, where he had been awaiting this signal. 
Peeschee whispered one or two words to him, and then 
turned once more to the Chilkats, whose brows were 
beginning to darken. 
" He consents to give you the wonderful image on one 
condition. That is that you will set free the captives now 
lying beside us, the mighty man with the long arm, and 
the boy beloved by the black dog ; and, moreover, that 
you will do no harm to his tribe, who must shortly pass 
through the village of the Brown Bears, on their way to 
the mountains of fire." 
Peeschee well knew that no Alaskan Indian would ap- 
proach within twenty miles of a volcano. The statement 
that the white men were to visit those abodes of evil 
spirits and magic evidently impressed them, as he had 
intended it should. 
" The women of the Brown Bears will let the boy go 
with the black dog," they announced, after some consulta- 
tion among themselves ; and, stooping down, one of them 
