which was given to each child in the village. In the good
humor excited by this occurrence they parted, though re-
luctantly, with four other horses, for which we gave them
two kettles, reserving only a single small one for a mess of
eight men. Unluckily, however, we lost one of the horses
by the negligence of the person to whose charge he was
committed. The rest were, therefore, hobbled and tied;
but as the nations here do not understand gelding, all the
horses but one were stallions; this being the season when
they are most vicious, we had great difficulty in managing
them, and were obliged to keep watch over them all night.

"As it was obviously our interest to preserve the good-
will of these people, we passed over several small thefts
which they committed, but this morning we learnt that six
tomahawks and a knife had been stolen during the night.
We addressed ourselves to the chief, who seemed angry
with his people, and made a harangue to them; but we
did not recover the articles, and soon afterward two of our
spoons were missing. We therefore ordered them all from
our camp, threatening to beat severely any one detected in
purloining. This harshness irritated them so much that
they left us in an ill-humor, and we therefore kept on our
guard against any insult. Besides this knavery, the faith-
lessness of the people is intolerable; frequently, after
receiving goods in exchange for a horse, they return in a
few hours and insist on revoking the bargain or receiving
some additional value. We discovered, too, that the horse
which was missing yesterday had been gambled away by
the fellow from whom we had purchased him, to a man of
a different nation, who had carried him off. We succeeded
in buying two more horses, two dogs, and some chappelell,
and also exchanged a couple of elk-skins for a gun belong-

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