mouth, and quitted his tenement of clay, leaving those

lived. John was at all times a most repulsive looking individual, a

part of his mouth having been shot away in a fight with Indians near

Walla Walla some years before, in which a Methodist missionary had

been killed; but his revolting personal appearance was now worse than

ever, and the sacrilegious use of Father Pandoza's vestments, coupled

with the ghastly scalp that hung from his bridle, so turned opinion

against him that he was soon captured, dismounted, and his parade

brought to an abrupt close, and I doubt whether he ever after quite