unsold, and in annuity provisions of previous treaties to the amount of over $1,000,000 capital! Is uot their long snffer ing, their patience, well-nigh incredible?

Spite of the dread of being fired on troops, they coutinued to make canoes and escape in thenı from this "new home" in the desert, and in October the Depart- ment of the Interior began to reccive letters containing para graphs like this: "I have also to report that snall detachments of Wiunebagoes onr rescrve, and begging for food to kcep them from star ing."Agent for Omaha Agency.

These are the men who only one vear before had been liv- ing in comfortable homes, with several hundred acres of good ground under eultivation, and clamoring for certificates" of their allotied" farus-ow shelterless, worse than homcless, cscaping by canoc-loads, under fire of United States soldiers, from a barren desert, and "clamoring" for food at Indian agencies!

The Department of the Interior promptly reports to the Su- perintendent of Indian Aflairs in Minnesota this "iuformation, and calls it "astounding." The Department had "presumed that Agent Balcombe would adopt such measures as wonld in ducc the Wiunebagoes to remain upon thcir rescrvation," and had "understood that ample arrangements had been made for their subsistence." It, however, ordered the Omaha agent to by the Uuited States are constantly arriving in canoes, locating on feed the starving refngees till spring, and it sent word to those stll remaining on the reservation that they must not "under take to remore without the consent of their Great Father, as it is his determination that a home that shall be healthy, pleasant, and fertile, shall be furuished to them at the earliest practicable momcnt."

This was in the autumn of 1863. In one year no less than 1222 of the destitute Winnebagoes had escaped and made their way to the Omaha Reservation in Nebraska. Here the