this whipping-system was they to be to them. They said going were willing it should continue, provided they were to receive shirts and pants and blankets as a reward for being whipped. They had been whipped had got nothing for it, and it had done them no good, If this state of things and they would throw it away."

The Secretary aspoct of his agent's original cfforts in the line of jurispru- dence. IHe says of the report which includes this astounding code, merely that "it furnishes some deeply interesting and curious details respecting certain of the Indian tribes in that remote part of our territorics," and that the conduct of the Nez Percós on the occasion of this important mecting "im good many times, and was to continue, it was all good for notlhing, of War docs not appear to have scen this 4 presses one most agreeably."

A roport submitted at the samo time by tho Rev. Mr. Spaul- ding, who had lived six years as missionary among the Nez Percés, is much pleasanter reading. He says that "nearly all the principal they are as industrions in their schools as on their farms. men and chiefs are members of the school; that They cultivate their lands with nuch skill and to good advan tago, and many more would do so if they had the means. About one hundred are printing their oWn books with the This keeps up a deep interest, as they daily have new 'pen lessous to print; and what they print memory as soon as possible. A good number are now so far advanced in reading and printing in teaching. lodge becomes a school-room. Their lessons are sons; no others (except the laws) seem to interest them

Even this missionary seems to have fallen under some strange glamour on the subject of the whipping-code; for he adds: The laws which you so must be committed to as to render much assistance Their books arc taken home at night, and every Scripture les happily prepared, and which were unanimously adopted by the people, I have printed in the form