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Show • 282 LcrtJis lllHl ClCt1·lw's l:a]JCtliliuu. pursue our advice, for he had opened his cat·s to OUL' t•oun cils, which bad made his h<>at•t glad. 'Vc uow rcsumt·tl our mcdic•aJ labours, and had a nutnb('l' or patients a.ffiictl'() with sct'OJ)hula. rhcumali::!m and sore eyes, to all whic·h we ad, miuistcJ·etl vc•·y c·hecl'l'ully as far as onr skill anti supplies of' medicine woulclptwmit. 'Vc also visit.cd a chiel'wlto has fOI' thJ'fC ycat·s past SO COmpletely lost the USC of his limbs, that lw lie., Jikt~ a pct·f<'ct corpse in what.cvct· position he is I>hH•t:d, )"Ct h cats hc;u·tily. dige:sts his food wwy \rt·ll, ha ~ a a·q~ula I' puhw. aucl retains his lh·sh; in short, were he not somt''" hat palt· f1·om Jying so long out of OIC ~u n, he mi;~hc he mista.krn k'ol' a man i11 pel'ft'('t l~t·aHh. 'J'his tli.;ca:. t' dot~s not s<·t•m to be common; i nd(•ed, "c Ita vc !-Wen onl,Y thJ•<•t• <•asl's of it amon~ tlw Clwpunnish. \\ ho :done ai'C af: flictl'd \\ ilh it. The s<••·ophulou !-i diso)'(lt·•·s we may n •;1tlily conjrttu•·e to 01·ir;iuatt- iu the Joug <·ontinl'mcnt to wgdahlc diec; "hich may pcl'lmps also irtel'<'ase the sorem·~s of the C)es; hut fhis st•·nnge disorder ballles at o11cc our c•urio~ity and ou1· skill. Our assistance was again demanded early Ot~> next morning, }londay 12, by a crowtl of Indians, to whom wr gnvc ryr\ vater. Sho1·tly after. the chi('fs and waiTiors held a coun. cil amoug themselves, lo decide on the ~mswct· to our speech: and the result was~ as we wea·c informed, that they confid<•d jn what we had told tlu~m, and rcsoJvcd to follow our all viet·. This a·esolution once made, the principal chief, Tuunaohr· mootoolt, took a quantity or Hom· of tlac roots of cows, and going round to all the kettles and baskets, io which his pro} llc were couJ~ing. tit ickcned the soup into a kind of mush. lie then l.w~,.an a ha•·anguc, maldng li:uowu tl&e rcsull of the dclibct•ations among t be chief.-;, and after exho•·ting them to unauh11ity, <•oncluded by an invitation. to all '~ho agreed to the JWOCCCUings o{' the council, to COIJle aud eat, while thoee who would uot abide hy the dccbion of the ehicfs We1·c t•equest<.·d to show theh· dissent hy not pa.1·taking in the feast. During t.Jais animatt·d luu·augue, the women.~ UJJ the .JJlissow i. ,vho we1·e prohahly uneasy at the p•·nspe('t of f01·ming this new (•onnl~xion willa st.ran~(~rs, ton· t1u·i•· hair, atul WJ'tJOg theh· hands with the grcatt·st appeara1we of' dista·css. But th(• c·onoluding app<'al of the ot·ator dft·.ctu«dly stopjwd the mouths ol' every umJcontent, and the proceedings WCJ'C ratilied, and the mush dn·om·cd with tlw most zealous unanimity. 'rhe chief's aml wm·riors then came in a. body to visit us. as vc wct·c scah•d ncaJ• om· tent, and at tlwit· instanee~ two) oung men, one of whom was the son of Tuuna.ehmnootoolt. and the otlact• the youth whose fathrr had bl·cn k11Jed by the Pahke<·s, pt'('.s<'ntcd to each or us a lint.~ htwsc. \Ve cau~cd the chicrs to be seated, mul gavo cvct·y one or them a ilag, a IWund of powdrt·, ami fifty balls, and a pl'<'scnt of the ~nne kind to the young mru ft·om whom we had received the horrscs. They then invited us into the tent, and told us fhat they now wished to answer what we had told tlwm yestet·day; but that m«lllJ of thcil· 11cop1o wel'C at that moment waiting in gr·cat pain rm· 0111' Ulcdical assistance. H was thcrcfo•·c agt·ced that ca1}tain (;hu·ke, who is the favotn·ite physician, should vi sit the sick, while (~aptain Lrwis would l10ld the council; which was a<•co•·dingly opcm·d by ~111 old man, the fath<•t• of Hohastilpilp. He began h.v dcclat·ing that the nation had li!:ltcnc(l with ath•ntion to our ad vice, ami had only one hral't anti on<.' tongue iu declaring thci1• determination to follow it. 'I'hey knew well the advanhtges of peace, for they valued the lives of thcit· young men too much to expose them to the dnngc1·s of w::u·; and thei1• de.· sit·e to live quietly with their neighbours, had induct·d I hem last summtn• to send tht·ce warriors with a pipe to tlw Shoshonccs, in the plains of Columbia, south or Lrwis's l'iVfl'. These minisiel'!; of peace had been killed by the Shoshonces, a~ainst whom the nation immediately took up anns. Thry had met themla8t winter, and killed fot·ty -two uu.•n, with the loss of only t.ht·ce of their own paa•ty; so t.hn.t having revengctl tlwit· deceased bretlu·cn, they "ould no longet· mal~c war on the ";lw~llonr<"i, l>ut. rcncivo l.ht!Dl a:; l't·ienc.ls. As fl) |