with such a sense of desolation as mercifully comes but

officers at the post were kept pretty well occupied. Captain Russell

assigned to me the special work of keeping up the police control, and

as I had learned at an early day to speak Chinook (the "court

language" among the coast tribes) almost as well as the Indians

themselves, I was thereby enabled to steer my way successfully on

For some time the most disturbing and most troublesome element we had

was the Rogue River band. For three or four years they had fought

our troops obstinately, and surrendered at the bitter end in the