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Updated: June 18, 2025
A brief command from Snoqualmie, and they landed on the northern side of the river, not far from the foot of the falls. There they must disembark, and the canoes be carried around the falls on the shoulders of Indians and launched above. The roar of the Cascades roused Wallulah from her stupor. She stepped ashore and looked in dazed wonder on the strange new world around her.
Then Snoqualmie, the bravest and most loyal of the tributaries, spoke. "Let the peace-pipe be lighted; we come not for strife, but to be knit together." The angry malcontents in the council only frowned and drew their blankets closer around them.
And all the time the women lifted the death-wail, and Snoqualmie stood looking on with folded arms and sullen baffled brow. At length the work was done. The wail ceased; the gathering broke up, and the sachems and their bands rode away, Snoqualmie and his troop departing with them. Only the roar of the cascades broke the silence, as night fell on the wild forest and the lonely river.
Formerly the trip from Seattle was a hard one, over corduroy roads; now it is reached in a few hours by rail along the shores of Lake Washington and Lake Squak, through a fine sample section of the forest and past the brow of the main Snoqualmie Fall.
Snoqualmie comes and stands close by the prisoner and gives directions for the torture to begin. The Bannock is stripped. The stone blades that have been in the fire are brought, all red and glowing with heat, and pressed against his bare flesh. It burns and hisses under the fiery torture, but the warrior only sneers. "It doesn't hurt; you can't hurt me. You are fools.
He stood with outstretched arms, from which the robe of fur had fallen back. A thrill of dread went through the assembly at the grim defiance; then Snoqualmie spoke. "The heart of all the tribes is as the heart of Multnomah. Let there be peace." The chief resumed his seat. His force of will had wrung one last victory from fate itself.
Ever since his interests have been identified with Alaska, he has hoped to know you personally, and he wishes particularly to meet you now, to thank you for your services in Snoqualmie Pass. In the general confusion after the accident I am afraid none of us remembered to.
Do not let me see your face change while I tell you whom I have chosen." She lifted her face in a tumult of fear and dread, and her eyes fastened pathetically on the chief. "His name is " she clasped her hands and her whole soul went out to her father in the mute supplication of her gaze "the chief Snoqualmie, him of whom you have thought."
"I hope you will be happy with Snoqualmie, and " She lifted her eyes with a sudden light flashing in their black depths. "Do you want me to hate him? Never speak his name to me again!" "He is to be your husband; nay, it is the wish of your father, and the great sachems approve it." "Can the sachems put love in my heart? Can the sachems make my heart receive him as its lord?
What could he do against Wau-ca-cus the Klickitat and Snoqualmie the Cayuse, whose sonorous utterances still rang in their ears, whose majestic presence still filled their minds! "The Willamettes are beaten at last, the Willamette speakers can no more be called the best," was the one exultant thought of the allies, and the Willamettes trembled for the fame of their orators.
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