gain, they then make their agreement.

" We said to him: We do not wish to go can talk together and find out what each wants, and When a man anything, he does not let it go till he has reccived pay owns ment for it.

We said to him: We will see the President first."

"He said to us: 'I will take you to see the new land. you like it, then you can scc the President, and tell him so, not, then you can see him and tell him so. ten of our chiefs down. I went, and Bright Eyes' uncle went Ilc took us to look at three different pieces of land. we must take one of the three pieces, so the President said. After he took us down there ho said: 'No pay for the land you If If And he took all He said left. We said to him: You have forgotten what you said be- fore we started. You said we should have pay for our land. You told us then you were spcaking truth. All these three men took ns down there. The man got very He tried to compel us to take oue of the threc picces He said to us: If yon do Now you say not angry of land not accept thesc, I will leave you here alone. You are one thousand miles from home. You have no money. Yon have interpreter, aud you cannot speak the language. went out and slamined thc door. The man talked to us from Ife told ns to be brave. Aud he long before sundown till it was ninc o'clock at night.

We said to him: We do not like this land We conld not support oursclves. The water is bad. Now send us to Washington, to tell the President, as yon promised.

He said to us: The President did not tell me to take you to Washington; neither did he tell me to take you home.

We said to him: You have the Indian moncy yon took to bring us down here. That money belongs to us. We wonld People do not gire away food for nothing. We must have money to buy food on the road. like to have some of it.