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demued them. He advised them, however, to accept the laws, for their own good.

Here The Prince interrupted, desiring that the good the laws were to do them might be put in a tangible form. It was a long time, he said, since the whites had come into their country promising to do them good; but all had passed by without leaving any benefits behind. He re ferred to the competition between the Hudson's Bay Company and the American traders in 1832-1834, and said the company had then told them not to go after the Americans that they would not give them presents that they talked well, but did not perform, while the company both promised and performed.

To this Dr. White replied that he was not come either as a missionary or a trader; and the council ended for that day without arriving at any definite conclusion.

During the evening White was approached by Ellis and Lawyer, who informed him they expected pay for being chiefs, and desired to know how much salary would be given them, Ellis saying he thought he had already earned enough to make him rich. He received, however, no answer to his demand at that interview.

On the next day, before resuming the business of the council, it became necessary to put the laws in practice, J the Kanaka who had accompanied the expedition as(f servant having been shot, though not fatally, in a quarrel f with a Nez Percé. The offender fled, but was pursued, arrested, and punished by forty lashes on his bare back.

This matter attended to, the council proceeded, and after a number of speeches in effect like those of the previous day, a majority being in favor of the laws, the code was adopted by the Cay uses; and after some electioneering. Tauitowe was chosen high chief.

It is said, in Gray'ssHistory of Oregon, that Tauitowe was concerned with The Prince in the attack on Mr. Parnbrun, and that since that time he had been discountenanced by the Hudson's Bay Company, and dissensions sown among