He Moreover Advised Us To Visit Broken Arm,
Who Was A Chief Of Great Eminence, And He Would Himself Guide Us
To His Dwelling.
"We told him that we would follow his advice in every respect;
that we had confided our horses to
His care, and expected
he would deliver them to us, on which we should cheerfully
give him the two guns and the ammunition we had promised him.
With this he seemed very much pleased, and declared
he would use every exertion to restore the horses.
We now sent for Neesbnepahkeeook, or Cut Nose, and, after smoking
for some time, began by expressing to the two chiefs
our regret at seeing a misunderstanding between them.
Neeshnepahkeeook replied that Twisted Hair was a bad old man,
and wore two faces; for, instead of taking care of our horses,
he had suffered his young men to hunt with them, so that they
had been very much injured, and it was for this reason
that Broken Arm and himself had forbidden him to use them.
Twisted Hair made no reply to this speech, and we then told
Neeshnepahkeeook of our arrangement for the next day.
He appeared to be very well satisfied, and said he would
himself go with us to Broken Arm, who expected to see us,
and had TWO BAD HORSES FOR US; by which expression we understood
that Broken Arm intended to make us a present of two horses."
Next day, the party reached the house of Twisted-hair, and began
to look for their horses and saddles.
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