d to take a cupful. I watched her as she swallowed it,
when her eyes began to roll, and, stretching out her hand with the cup,
she begged to have it refilled. This Peshauba willingly did, and cup
after cup was swallowed till not a drop remained. She begged to have
some more; but Peshauba replied that he could not give it without
payment, and that he would only sell a whole cask. She at once offered
him all the beaver-skins and a large quantity of buffalo-robes.

"Still he was not content, and insisted on having me and several other
articles. She cried with vexation, but at last, finding she could not
obtain the fire-water, she exclaimed, `Take them all, but only bring me
the rum.'

"Peshauba got up and, without saying a word, returned to his own camp.
He was not long absent, and came back with a party of his young men, who
carried the cask of rum. On depositing it they lifted up the bales and
other property which they had taken in exchange, and walked off with
them, Peshauba leading me by the hand. I knew that there was no use in
making any resistance, though I felt very indignant at being thus bought
and sold.

"I was sorry, too, at leaving old Kezha, who, although now presenting a
very melancholy spectacle as she lay rolling helplessly on the ground,
had yet been kind to me on many occasions, and I was not likely to be
better treated by any one else.

"It is not the custom of the Indians, however, to trade in slaves;
indeed, I was not looked upon as one exactly, but rather as a new member
of the family. The idea of making slaves of their fellow-creatures is
entirely contrary to the nature of the Indians. They will either kill
their enemies or let them go, or, if they wish it, receive them into
their tribe on equal terms. I had to obey Peshauba as a son obeys his
father. He and his wife treated me with considerable kindness.

"We moved away westward when my former friends turned back towards the
Red River. I was allowed as much freedom as before, and as I had become
a tolerably good hunter, was sent out by myself. On one occasion
Peshauba sent me out to bring in the meat of an elk which he had killed,
accompanied by two girls. Finding the animal large and fat, they
determined on remaining to dry the meat, that they might have the less
weight to carry. I, knowing it would be wiser to obey the order I had
received, took up my load and started for home.

"Observing several elk as I went along, I resol