, 1873-06-08

| which the dying savage 90 earnestly pleads Wall
home to rest; and nothing from which he W u
piteonaly adjures them to deliver him as the dis
honor Of being buried in alien soil.
This nation were even worse than tht
Modocs in the rapacity and cruelty will
] which they
/ PROSECUTED TIE E1AyE-TRADE.
To secure supply Of slaves, they general,
made war on the timid aud peaceful Indians o.
Pit River. OF the captiyes taken, they retained
rs many as they wished for their own service
and sold the remainder to the tribes about The
| Dalles and Des Chutes. It WIS by means Of thit
! barter that they first obtained stock Of ponies
| which their northern nelghbors had learned te
| use before themselves. These slaves, like I
| other. property. were sacrificed upon the deatl
OF the owner, though the practice is now discon-
! tnued. The last instance when they attempt
| ed it was at the death Of Capt. Georges
! daughter, from the effects Of burn, when
| they wished to immediate all her slaves
! but the whites intervened, and prevented it.
| When q maiden
| - ARRIVES AT woMASHooD,
her father makes a kind Of party III her honor.
| Her young companions assemble, end together
| they dance and sing wild, dithyrambio rounde-
lays = improyised songs of the woods and the
waterE-as thus:
Jumping echoes Of the rock,
Squirrels turning somers4utz;
| Green lsaEes, dancing IN the mir;
EiAhea, white nnney-she1lG,
Running IN the water, green, and deep, and still
Hi-ho, ht-ho, hi-hsyl
Hiho, hi-ho, ht-hayl
This is the substance of one Of the
songs, as translated for me, and I have
initiated the rhythmica1 movement as
nea1ly as possible. For Eve consecutive
nights, the maiden and her chosen companions,
locked arm in arm, with wristlets and anklets
OF the chanize-bush, walk to and fro, on the
same line, all night; rattling amulets and deers'
toes, chanting and singing, continually. The
Indians, occasionally, stand decorously by and
look on; but, unlike the California Indians,
they take no part in the exercises, and profane
inony is ended, the father makes liberal pres
| ents to the maiden's friends who have attended
her; sometimes. even, being obliged to sell q
horse to enable him to carry out his generona
| impulses.
| These Indians are more >.
| -. ATTACHED: TO THEIR CHILDREN
than most tribes in California. So poignant and
so overwhelming ia the. grief Of father on los
| ing his SOL, that he sometimes ruahea away in
nlidwinter, ascends the highest mountain,
plungea himself in the snow, and fasta-weep.
ing, and beating his breast. It would seem
that, if bis friends did not follow him and bring
him back, ho would perish.
ali the world, but that the coyote and the vol
I stoleit, from some quarter, and restored it. The
coyote had the secret principle Of fire in his toe
nails and he impaired it to the turtle, than car
tied him up into the mountains. where the tur-
! GN
that an Indian can now extract it by percuBsing
| the one or drilling the other.
BLYDELKNELoEKE
0he Chief above) gave them, as they believe, all
| uses and names. He showed their ancestors
how to make elk-sEn hats and boots or leggins,
| and that they should pluck ont their boards !;
and he instructed the squaws in the art of
weaving skull-caps, etc. When an In
aims, ho carefully retrains from displacing
or rolling down any stones, because Btydelkne-
lokke walks on the mountains, stepping from
stone to stone, and he would be offended at the
absence OF q single one, So -.
Before. the Mnclalucs fell from their hugh
estate, they we're q happy. people. Blydolkne-
lokke gave them freely all things to enjoy,
without the toll Of woman's hands. Pleasant
roots had they, and al manner Of flesh
many green and goody herbs which the earth
hbundantly Produces. All these things did
they cat, without sweat or tod, or chase. Their
days we're full OF songe, and their nights Of
sweet love, and laughter. and the dance Their
| medicines talked with the Chief on high and
their words we're wise. No pestilence, no black
death, nor blight, nor deadly pains, ever passed
among their villages. But q maiden OF, the
Muckalucs wrought IN odious thing in the sight
OF men, Iu wrath and vengeance, Blyde1kne-
lokke slew her with his hammer wLerowith he
created aud fashioned the world. He smote her
unto death, on the spot but her guilty lover
escaped
SHE WAS TURNED INTO sroNr,
on the mountain-g1de, and the great ham,
mer Likewise, beside her. There they
have lain through many. many, many snowe,
plainly visible on the mountain-an everlasting
reminder to the unhappy Muekalucs Of the folly
and weakness Of women, and Of the once happy
estate which they. lost forever through her
wickedness. On the mountain, towering high,
which they call :" Naylix,"' just at the edge Of
tho chafng and leaping waves Of Upper Klamath
Lake, ia seen the gigantic form Of tho Woman OF
her head the Hammer Of Creation. And ever
since TINT fatal day. the hapleas Muckalucs haye
been condemned to labor and to pain
all because Of the primal sin Of woman.
If anybody possesses the requisite ingenuity to
the tale Of Eden, he is welcome to it,. Why not
allow that the Indian sagos, also, in their medi-
tations may have grounded hard aud fnst on
that old, old rock Of shipwreck-'fWhence camo
disease and death into the world5 ?" And suroly
the Muckalue legend is no more dlscreditnbio
than the Hebrew, for both shoulder
~. ALL THE ELAINE UPON TIE WoIEN,- =:
the one upon her curiosity. the other upon her.
frailty. The inventors Of either attributed to
her whatevcr they considered her besetting sin.
therefron,, and the subsequent and present
TROUBLES WITH THE MoDoB,
. very brief and simple statement will suffice.
II 1854 they ceded all their lands, by treaty, to
the United state8 Goyeznmant, aud agreed to
so upon the Klamath Reservation. In 1864, the |
substance OF that treaty was renewed This
is50 by 40 miles in extent, living |
east of Upper klamath Luke, and including tic !
fertile and magnificent valley Of spracne |
River. It is only Justice to the Modocs to aay |
that they never we're permitted to live happily |
on this reservation. The Klamath Lake /
bitter and hereditary en- |
emies, and greatly outnumber1ng them-ware
placed On It with them. together with several
hundred Piutes. The Klamath Lake Indians
we're still on their own ancestral soil, while the
Nodocs were not and the former continually |
aunted them with that fact, flung at them as
nter1opcrs and beggars, hectored and bu1lied
ulted and beat their women whenever they
oald DO it safely, and, in short, did everything
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