return to his village. The emancipated Ietan had,
however, the good fortune, on her journey of the subsequent day, to
meet with a war-party of her own people, by whom she was conveyed to
her family in safety.

"Another display of the firmness and determination of the young
warrior was required to abolish this sacrifice, it is to be hoped for
ever. The succeeding spring, a warrior, who had captured a fine
Spanish boy, vowed to sacrifice him to the Great Star, and accordingly
placed him under the care of the magi for that purpose.

"The Knife Chief, learning the determination of the warrior, consulted
with his son, respecting the best means of preventing a repetition of
the horrible ceremony. 'I will rescue the boy,' said Petalesharoo, 'as
a warrior should, by force;' but the Knife Chief, unwilling that his
son should again expose himself to a danger so imminent as that which
he had once encountered in this cause, hoped to compel the warrior to
exchange his victim for a large quantity of merchandize, which he
would endeavour to obtain with that view. For this purpose, he
repaired to Mr. Pappan, who happened to be in the village for the
purposes of trade, and communicated to him his intentions. Mr. Pappan
generously contributed a considerable quantity of merchandize, and
much was added by himself, by Petalesharoo, and other Indians.

"All this treasure was laid in a heap together, in the lodge of the
Knife Chief, who thereupon summoned the warrior before him. The chief
armed himself with his war-club, and explained the object of his call,
commanding the warrior to accept the merchandize, and yield up the
boy, or prepare for instant death. The warrior refused, and the chief
waved his club in the air towards the warrior. 'Strike!' said
Petalesharoo, who stood near to support his father; 'I will meet the
vengeance of his friends.' But the more prudent and politic chief
added a few more articles to the mass of merchandize, in order to give
the warrior another opportunity of acquiescing without forfeiting his
word.

"This expedient succeeded; the goods were reluctantly accepted, and
the boy was liberated."--_James's Account of an Expedition to the
Rocky Mountains_, ii, 81.

II. THE WARNING OF TEKARRAH.

It was at early nightfall, on a warm and beautiful day, in the month
which the white man calls June, but which the red man calls the Hot
Moon, that a little fleet, consisting of three small bateaux, fitted
out at Montr