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Indians in interpreting signs would very easily have known its deeper import, although they might not tell it to their white neighbors.

The red box raised high upon the tree did not add any to the comfort or feeHng of security of the few white people that lived at Cathlamet.

From 1850 to 1862 the pioneer life of Cathlamet went on, the white population steadily increasing and the red as steadily diminishing.

The order of burial of the Book of Common Prayer was continually in use and was read over many lonely little graves, every trace of which has since been swept away.

One of the saddest of these burials was that of Indian George, a young Indian of sixteen. He had been a slave of theTsimpseans, Northern Indians, from Fort Simpson, and on one