"He said to us: I will not give you a cent.

We said to him: We are in a strange country. We can- not find onr way home. way.

He said: I will not give you any.

We said to him: This interprcter is ours Let him go with us." He said: You shall not have the interpreter. He is mine, and not yours. We said to him: Take us at least to the railroad ; show Give us a pass, that people may show ns or We pay im us the way to that. And he wonld not. He left us right there. It was winter slept in hay-stacks. We barely lived till morning, it was so cold. We had nothing We started for home on foot. At night we but our blankets. We took the ears of corn that had dried in The soles of our moecasins wore the fields; we ate it raw. out. We were barefoot in the snow. We were nearly dead when we reached the Otoe Reserve. It had been fifty days We stayed there ten each of us a pony ceired a telegram from the inspector, saying that the Indian chicfs had run away; not to days to strengthen up, and the Otoes gave The agent of the Otoes told us he had re- give us food or shelter, or help in any way. The agent said: 'I would like to understand, Tell me all that has happened. Tell me the truth."

(This Otoe agent afterward said that when the chiefs en- tered his room they left the prints of their feet in blood on the fHoor as they came in.)

Then we told our story to the agent and to the Otoe chiefs how we had been left down there to find our way

The agent said: 'I can hardly believe it possible that any onc could hawe treated you so. That inspector was a poor man If I had taken chiefs in this way, I wonld have brought them home; I could not have left them there.

"In seven days we reached the Omaha Reservation. Then to have done this.