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CHAPTER XIX.

THE INDIANS ACCOUNT OF THE CREATION.

became almost thoroughly an Indian. The clash and struggle of the world below had ground upon my nerves, and I was glad to get away. Perhaps by nature I inclined to the dreamy and care less life of the Arabs of America ; certainly my sym pathies had always been with them, and now my whole heart and soul entered into the wild life in the forest. In fact from the first few months I had spent with these people a sort of prisoner I had a keen but inexpressed desire to be with them and them alone. Now my desire was wholly gratified. I had seen my last, my only friend depart, and had shut the door behind him with a slam a sort of fierce delight that I should be left alone in the wilderness.

No more plans for getting money; no more re proach from fast and clever men who managed the lower world; no more insults from the coarse and insolent; no more bumping of my head against the