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T was the first purpose of Augustus Reid, when he left the ruins of his father's wigwam, to collect a company of his own race, recover what might remain of the hapless creatures who had met death there, and see them decently buried. He did not at once return to the house of his white friend, the young contractor, for two reasons; he felt that the old chief, North Wind, would prefer that some of his own people should assist in the last, sad offices about the ruins of his wigwam, and he shrank from making known to the whites