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had indicated a desire to adopt them "We do not take the laws because Tauitau says so, said the cliiet, anerilv "He is a Catholic, and as a people we do not follow the Catholic worship." 13 But White ex- plained that the Americans had different modes ot worship, yet obeyed one law. .
A Nez Perce sub-chief, called the Prince, complained that the white people had not given them cattle, but they had been compelled to pay for them. He wanted something tangible, cattle and presents, because his people had been kind to Lewis and Clarke, lllutm, also a Nez Perce, declared that he was wearied with the wickedness of the young men, and asserted that it was because they had stolen property in their pos- session that they objected to the laws But the prince argued that the white people had long since been promising them benefits, though they passed on and left no blessing behind. If the Americans de- signed to do them good, why did they not bring pres- ents like the British traders, who not only promised but performed. To this very pointed argument W lute replied that the Americans among them were mis- sionaries, and not traders. Thus the first day passed without anything definite being accomplished. Alter the meeting adjourned Ellis and Lawyer came pri- vately to the sub-agent to tell him that they expected pay for being chiefs. The former had counted the months he had been in office, and thought there must be enough due him to make him wealthy. It certainly was a singular civilization, this of White s, which al- lowed officials no salary, and criminals no recompense. On the following day it was found somewhat easier to proceed with the business of the council. I he
"This was true, though the Cayuses were pretty evenly divided between Protectants and RonJdsm. Of the chiefs o.dy ; T.mtaa *-£«"£ Wi* LrntW Five Crows was a Protestant; Tiloukaikt was a Protestant, and fo ™ ^ StTcca Pen^euroxmox of the Walla Walla Cayuses was also a ProIeLnf Parnsh calls Peupeumoxmox * ™^$™^&™ Z better reason for this opinion than that he sent his son Elijah Heddmg to the Methodist Mission to be ducated. Or Anecdote, ^.^J^^JJ have been an intelligent savage, and being rich as well, possessed great
influence.