stock; and they have raised abundance of corn, some wheat, potatocs, oats, and garden vegetables; have made batter and checse; and raised fruit, etc., ete. They dwell in good log cabins, and some have extremely neat houses, well furnished They have their outhouses, stables, well-feced lots, and some have good barns," There are seventy scholars in one school alone that are taught by the Friends; and the teacher reports: to see the rapidity with which they "It is truly astonishing acquire knowledge. The boys work on the farm part of the time, and soon learn how to do what they are set at. girls spend a part of their time in doing housework, sewing, etc. Many of them do the scwing of their own, aud somc The of the clothes of the other children."

In 1853 the Delawares are recorded as being"among the most remarkable of our colonized tribes. By their intrepidity and varied enterprise they Besides being industrious farmers and herdsmen, they hunt and trade all over the interior of the continent, carrying their traffic beyond the Great Salt Lake, and exposing themselves to a thousand perils."

Their agent gives, in is report for this year, a graphic ac- count of an incident such as has only too often oceurred on distinguislhed in a high degree. are our frontier. A small party of Delawares, consisting of a man, is squaw, and a lad about eighteen years of age, recently returning from the mountains, with the avails and profits of a successful hunt and traffic, after they had commenced their journey homeward the second day the man sickened and died. Before he died he dirceted his squaw and the young man to hasten home with their horses and mles-thirteen is number-their ooney (four hnndred and forty-five dollars), besides many other articles of value. After a few days' travel, near some of the forts on the Arkansas, they were overtaken by four white men, deserters from the United States Army-three on foot, and onc riding a mule. The squaw and young man