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It contained about two hundred and seventy thousand acres, agricultural land and timber-land. The beautiful Umatilla River flows through it. The agency now is near Pendleton, Oregon. Thither the Umatillas were removed. Marlowe Mann went there, and Gretchen as his young wife, and in their home Mrs. Woods for many years could have been heard singing hymns.
Wayworn Travellers An Increase of the Dorion Family. A Camp of Shoshonies. A New-Year Festival Among the Snakes. A Wintry March Through the Mountains. A Sunny Prospect, and Milder Climate. Indian Horse-Tracks. Grassy Valleys. A Camp of Sciatogas. Joy of the Travellers.-Dangers of Abundance. Habits of the Sciatogas. Fate of Carriere. The Umatilla. Arrival at the Banks of the Columbia.
Woods had returned from the block-houses. He said: "Gretchen, go! Your Traumerei will save the colony. Go!" Gretchen sat in silence for a moment. She then said: "I can trust Umatilla. I will go. I want to go. Something unseen is leading me I feel it. I do not know the way, but I can trust my guide. I have only one desire, if I am young, and that is to do right.
My hands are cold, my feet are cold, and my heart beats very slow. Three steps more, and I shall lay myself on the body of my boy. Hear, then, my last command; you have promised to obey it like brave men. "When I have taken my last three steps of life, and laid down beside the uncovered bed of earth beside my boy, fill up the grave forever; my breath will be gone; Umatilla will be no more.
In all its course from the mouth of the Yakima to the sea, a distance of three hundred miles, the only considerable affluent from the northward is the Cowlitz, which heads in the glaciers of Mount Rainier. The John Day River also heads in the Blue Mountains, and flows into the Columbia sixty miles below the mouth of the Umatilla.
This was the opinion of a man in the vicinity, but another white friend, named Javis warned him and advised him not to leave Umatilla, but persuaded him to work for him cutting cord wood; although "Parson" had never seen wood corded, he accepted the job and was soon given a pass to Macon, Georgia, to get other men; he brought 13 men back and soon became their "boss" and bought a house and decided to do a little hunting.
The children suddenly said: "Look!" and "Umatilla!" Out of the forest came an aged Indian, of gigantic stature Umatilla, one of the chiefs of the Cascades; and beside him walked his only son, the Light of the Eagle's Plume, or, as he had been named by the English, Benjamin. Umatilla, like Massasoit, of the early colonial history of Plymouth, was a remarkable person.
A tall, dark form met her eye a great shadow in the scintillant sunlight. It was an aged Indian, walking with a staff. He was coming toward the cabin. "Umatilla!" she said. "What can he want of me?" The old chief approached, and bowed and sat down on a log that answered for a door-step. "I walk with a staff now," he said. "My bow has drifted away on the tide of years it will never come back again.
"We will watch over him." "That is well." And, in a few hours, he had intrusted the guidance of his soul through the world of shadows to the white man's unseen father. Umatilla sat beside the body through the night, and in the morning he called his people together.
Umatilla, chief of the Indians at the Cascades of the Columbia, was one of the few red men of his time who favored peace with the white settlers and lent no countenance to the fierce revels of the "potlatch."
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