snall. Thus each season had its duty and its appointed place of abode, aud year aftor year the same month found them in the same spot.

In 1833 a delegation from these Oregon Indians went to St, Louis, and through Mr. Catlin, the artist, made known their ob- ject, which was "to inquire for the truth of a represeutation which they said some white men had made among them, that our religion was better than theirs, and that they would all be lost if they did not embrace it." Two members of this delega tion were Nez Percés Ilee-oh'ks-te-kin" and "H'co-a-h'co- a-h'cotes-min," or "Rabbit-skin Leggings," aud "No Horus on his Head." Their portraits are to be found in " Catlin's Amer iean Indians." One of these died on his way home; but the other journeyed his thousands of miles safely back, and bore to his tribe the news "that the report which they had heard was well founded, and that good and religious come among them to teach this religion, understand and have the benefits of it.

Two years later the Methodist Episcopal Society and the Ameriean Board both sent missionaries to Oregon. Before this the religion of the fur-traders was the only white man's religion that the Indians had had the opportunity of observing. Eleven different companies and expeditions, besides the Hnd son's Bay and the North-west Companies, had been established in their country, and the Indians had become only too familiar with their standards and methods. It was not many years af- ter the arrival of the missionaries in Oregon that a traveller there gave the following account of his experience with a Nez Pereé guide:

"Creekie (so he was named) ed my worn-out animals loose, and loaled my packs on his own gave me a splendid horse to ride, and intimated by sig- nificaut gestures that we would go a short distance that after- mcn would soon so that they could all was a very kind man; he turn I gave my assent, and we were soon on our way; hav noon.