he belonged to the New York Police, and he was kicked out

and of the Rains expedition from the incompetency of its commander,

was a great mortification to the officers and men connected with

them, and, taken together, had a marked effect upon the Indian

situation in Oregon and Washington Territories at that particular

era. Besides, it led to further complications and troubles, for it

had begun to dawn upon the Indians that the whites wanted to come in

and dispossess them of their lands and homes, and the failures of

Haller and Rains fostered the belief with the Indians that they could