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Updated: May 19, 2025
The flush died out of her cheek, leaving it cold and ashen; and her fingers worked nervously with the flute in her lap. He continued coldly, "The fame of your beauty has gone out through all the land. The chief of the Chopponish has offered many horses for you, and the chief of the Spokanes, our ancient foes, has said there would be peace between us if I gave you to him.
The spokesman of the runners, the runner to the Chopponish, stepped forward. With gestures of perfect grace, and in a voice that rang like a silver trumpet, he repeated the ancient oath of the Willamettes, the oath used by the Shoshones to-day. "The earth hears us, the sun sees us. Shall we fail in fidelity to our chief?" There was a pause.
The chief of a Klamath tribe offered him a brilliantly dyed blanket; another, a finely fringed quiver, full of arrows; another, a long and massive string of hiagua shells. Each laid his gift before Multnomah and took his seat in silence. The chief of the Chopponish presented him with a fine horse, the best belonging to his tribe. Multnomah accepted it, and a slave led it away.
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