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Show FORTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS. 83 advised we would have a good clean supper of healthy food ; that these carcasses were unclean ; that we were on the Lord's service, and did not believe He wanted us to suffer so much, if we only had faith to trust Him and ask for better. We all became united in this feeling. Accordingly we hauled all these carcasses of cattle, the wolves, also the offal from the store- house and shoved them into the hole cut in the ice, where they floated off out of our reach. We then went and washed out our store- house and presented it before the Lord empty, but clean. Near sundown the Indian spoken of came to our quarters. Some of the boys hunted up a small piece of raw hide and gave it to him. He said he had eaten it before. None of us were able to talk much with him ; we invited him to remain with us over night. Evening came on and no supper; eight o'clock, no word from any one. And the word had been positively given that we should have supper. Between eight and nine o'clock all were sitting waiting, now and then good- natur-edly saying it was most suppertime. No one seemed disheartened. Bro. Heywood was still with us. All at once we heard a strange noise resembling human voices down the road. Bro. Heywood rushed out exclaiming, " Here comes our supper." The voices were loud and in an unknown tongue. Bro. H. came back a little frightened saying there was something strange going on down the road. Several of us, taking our arms, started in the direction of the noise. On getting nearer we recognized the voices. The Magraw party under Jesse Jones was making another effort to get through with their coaches ; they had got stuck in a snow drift and the noise we heard was Canadian Frenchmen swearing at their mules. |