that the Indians were more likely to make the cross a stepping-stone to idolatry than to understand its spiritual significance; not appearing to perceive that he was dealing with savages who were already imbued with the principles of the Roman Catholic rehgion

After travelling several days to the Kooskoosk^ River, Parker, dreading the terrible Sahno* .River Mountains, where he narrowly escaped death the year before tried to persuade the Nez Perces to take txie Grande Ronde and Snake River route usually trav- elled by the Hudson's Bay Company b parties As the Indians however, preferred the Salmon River route 2 avoided the hostile Blackfoot warriors, £ changed his design, and after sending letters by

13As this Mistake of ^«?^^JSZZgF!&& explanation should be made of the .religion s ' ^ remembere(1 that the by him as most hopeful and teachable It will be rem l/alles people observed Sunday ■« a holiday i ^emj 11 reason ass ; eil church. Parker himself explains in a .note, p. u ■*,* ;f

to him for dancing being included ™ ^ e ™™ 4 ; obviously this it were forbidden they could not be interest wi in \ > £'. ■ relating

reason was not furnished him by the mh«ft emseh , es. A| , ^6

the circumstance of the burial cross, he ic na rks tl at th ey I ^^

told by some Iroquois, a few of ^""j^Jf n J^ lowing he was not tains to place a cro^ a the W of a P£*£F ^ g ^

wholly ignorant of J^^S^,,, Ir % uois formerly of the Coughna, the Catholic Missions, 4o , says that s o me ^ the ^^ be _

waga Catholic mission J^J'^J^aHhSr example; and that their coming «*f rt »"-^l^g S£ ! . to 111 before mentioned. . They desire for teachers led to the pilgrimage w chnro h, daily offering up

continued in the ceremonials and P™?tices ot the en u ) serva g on9

ay el , t„ God, ami keeping the g««*^ Jg^ and Causes had of Bonneville in lbo4, wliosays xm. i > fully cultivated by

a strong devotional feeling g£"P«£ £j ^e So far as Mr Pambrun oi some of the Hudson s Bay P^PffgJ " F t£ : he truth but not of the com- Walla Walla is concerned, this I ^^^^^^J^egan 2Wo^, pany's servants generally, as Dunn » **■£«< themselves for their neglect. 181, informs us, they having O^ 10 **?^ mentioned, ac-

So well advanced - ^^ZrZt^r^^ camps on Sunday, nor cording to Bonneville, that tliey\voAim necessity, but

fish, hunt, ortraJ-^^e^m = ^ tlie ^ y

passed a portion of the day in »"g"™ up0 n abstaining from lying,

devotions, and afterward givmg a sort ot sermon up hospitable to

stealing, cheating, and **™^^& made m the morning on week strangers. Prayers and ^exhortations 1 were also »«*» * and

days, often by the chief on horseback "^g^g,^ with attention, giving his instructions in a loud voice, the people I J^m* app arently

and at the end of every sentence ^^^^i^^^em^