This is a marvellous report of the change wrougit in a pco- ple in only two years' time. It proves that the misdemeaors, the hostitities of 1874 and 1875, had been largely forced on them by circumstances.

The winter of 1877 and summer of 1878 were terrible seasons for the Cheyennes. Their fall unt had proved un successful. Indians from other reservations ad hunted the gronnd over before them, and driven the buffalo off; and the Cheyennes made their way home again in straggling parties, Their agent reports that the resnlt of this hunt has clearly proved that "in the future the Indian nust rely on tiling the ground as the principal means of sup- port; and if this conviction can be firmly established, the great est abstacle to advancement in agriculture will be overcome. With the buffalo gone, aud their pony herds being constantly dccimated by the inroads of horse-thieves, they must soon adopt, in all its varieties, the way of the white man. * *The usnal amount of horse-stealing has prerailed, and the few cases of succeseful pursuit have only increased the boldness of the Until some other sys destitute and hungry thieves and the number of the thefts. tem of law is introduced we cannot hope for a cessation of this grievance."

The ration allowed to these Indians is reported as being "reduced and insufficient," and the small sums they have been able to earn by selling buffalo-hides are said to have been" of material assistance" to them in "supplementing" this ration But in this year there havc been sold only $657 worth of us by the Cheyennes and Arapahoes together. In 1876 they sold $17,600 worth. Here is a falling off enough to cause very great suffering in a little cominunity of five thousand people. But this was only the beginning of their tronbles. The summer proved one of unusual heat. Extreme heat, chills and fever, and "a reduced and insufficient ration," all combined, resulted in an amount of sickness heart-rending to read