Paw Mountain, in the Montana Hills, it was not beeause they were beaten, but because, as Joseph says, "I conld not bear to see iny wounded uen and women suffer any longer; we had lost enough already Paw Mountain if we had left our wounded, old women and children, behind. never heard of a wounded Indian recovering while in the hands of white men. * I belioved General Miles, or I never wonld We could have eseaped from Bear We had We were unwilling to do this. I have heard that he has been censured for have surrendered. making the promise to return us to Lapwai. Ile could not have made any other terms with me at that tine. I could have held him in check until my friends came to my assistance, and then neither of the generals nor their soldiers would ever hare left Bear Paw Mountain alive. On the fifth day I went to General Miles and gave up my gun, and said, 'From where the sun now stands, I will figlht no more.' My people necded rest; we wanted peace."

The terms of this surrender were shamefally violated. Joseph and is band were taken first to Fort Leavenworth and then to the Indian Territory. At Leavenworth they river bottom, with no water but the river water Lo drink.

" Many of my people sickened and died, and we buried them in this strange land," says Joseph my heart snffered for my people while at Leavenworth. The Great Spirit Chief who rules above seemed to be looking other way, and did not see what was being done to my people."

Yet with a marvellons magnanimity, and a elear-headed sense of justice of which few men would be capable under the cir cumstances, Joseph says: "I believe General Miles would bave kept his word if he could have done so. were placed in the I canuot tell how meh sOme I do not blame him for what we have suffered since the surrender. I do not know who is to blame. We gave up all our horses, over eleven hundred, and all our saddles, over one hondred, and we have not heard from them since. Sonmebody has got our horses.