"Soon Afterward Drewyer Returned From Hunting, And Was Sent To Invite
Twisted-Hair To Come And Smoke With Us.
He accepted the invitation,
and as we were smoking the pipe over our fire he informed us that according
To his promise on leaving us at the falls of the Columbia, he had
collected our horses and taken charge of them as soon as he reached home.
But about this time Neeshnepahkeeook and Turmachemootoolt (Broken-arm), who,
as we passed, were on a war-party against the Shoshonees on the south
branch of Lewis' River, returned; and becoming jealous of him,
because the horses had been confided to his care, were constantly
quarrelling with him. At length, being an old man and unwilling to live
in perpetual dispute with these two chiefs, he had given up the care
of the horses, which had consequently become very much scattered.
The greater part of them were, however, still in the neighborhood;
some in the forks between the Chopunnish and Kooskooskee,
and three or four at the village of Broken Arm, about half a day's
march higher up the river. He added, that on the rise of the river
in the spring, the earth had fallen from the door of the cache,
and exposed the saddles, some of which had probably been lost;
but that, as soon as be was acquainted with the situation of them,
he had them buried in another deposit, where they now were.
He promised that, if we would stay the next day at his house,
a few miles distant, he would collect such of the horses as were
in the neighborhood, and send his young men for those in the forks,
over the Kooskooskee.
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