must havo horses to hunt tlhem: horses they have not. The Winnebagoos had some when they first arrived, but they were soon stolen by the hostile Sioux,"

Agent Balcombe must have led a hard life on this reserva- tion. Exposcd to all the inconveniences of a remoto frontier, three hundred miles from any food-raising country; receiving etters from the Interior Department expressing itself "astound ed" that he does not "induce the Indians in his charge main on their reservation;" and letters from citizens, and peti tions from towns in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, aud Nebras- ka, imploring im to "gather up" all the wandering Winne bagoes who have becn left behind; unprovided with any proper military protection, and snrrounded to re- hostile Indians-no wonder that he recominends to the Government "to remove and consolidate" the different tribes of Indians into "one ter ritory" as soon as possible.

The effeets of this sojourn in the wilderness upon the Win nobagoes woro terrible. Not only were they rendered spiritless and desperate by sufferings, they were demoralized by being bronght again into conflict with the wild Sioux. They had more than one skirmish with them, and, it is said, relapsed Bo far into the old methods of their barbaric life that at one of their dances thoy actually roasted and ate the heart of a Sioux prisoner! Yet in less than a year after they were gathered to gether once more on the Omaha Reservation, and began again to have hopes of a "permauent home," we find their ehiefs and headmcn sonding the following petition to Washington

"Our Great Father at Washington, all greeting, From the chiefs, braves, and headmen of your dutiful children the Winnebagoes.

"Father, we cannot see you. Yon are far away from us. We cannot speak to yon. We will write to you; and, Father, we hope you will read our letter and answer us.