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of wasting their unmunition, or of attracting the attention | featured, with black eyes, and jet black hair, and but
of their foes. It was accordingly a welcome circumstance, | for the manifest absence of soap, would ee asta for
and no slight solacement of their imprisonment, that the | pretty. Her history was this: she was the d ht r of
captives had now plenty of good plain food. True, beans | Chinanikim, head of a abe a th f Cl ‘ont : A 4

; ay ans | Chinanikim, hes a tribe lying north of Chileoatendom.
end aa ey not rank poy luxuries; but then, all | Chinanikim had given offence to his neighbours by poach-
i me go | Lae and victuals whereat a London | ing on their hunting-grounds and streams. So Klatsassan
| eae : e : eased ee turn up his nose may seem | had put on the black paint and thrown back the eagles’
as the food of gods to a Chilcoaten savage, who for | feathers, and gone on the war trail. His people tad

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defeated their enemies and slain several of their warriors. |
The chief had escaped, but his camp and his household

The prisoners were allowed to have their families, or | gods had fallen into the hands of the Chilcoatens. Among
part of them, with them ; Klatsassan had one of his two | these, his daughter Toowaewoot, whom Klatsassan took
children; the fair | to himself to wife; he had a squaw already, but their
evisceratrix, lowever, does not appear to have been | chiefs are allowed more than one. The marriage cere-
of the number. Toowaewoot, the squaw, was at least | mony was of the simplest. The couple repaired to -a|

weeks has had to sustain his strength on a diet of bark
and berries.

squaws and some of his younger

twenty years younger than Klatsassan. She was well | running stream, narrow enough for them to shake hands

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THE WEDDING OF KLATSASSAN.