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"5 put his faithful soldier in the front of a poker game to get his wife, and the putting of Uriah in the front of the battle and the shedding of blood would have been spared the Psalmist.

This intercourse of the Coweliskies and the Puget Sound Indians naturally made them friendly, and when the Indian war of 1835was in progress and Chief Leschi on the Sound was taking the Puget Sound Indians into war with the whites, great fear was felt on the Columbia River that the Coweliskies would be drawn into the conflict, and it was deemed best to keep them at Fort Vancouver, and there they were brought and kept in semi-imprisonment.

At this time the regulars were in the field, and a company of volunteers was, greatly to its dissatisfaction and to the dissatisfaction of