The Pond Brothers.--Great Revival.--Conversions.--Galena.--Rum-seller Decision.--Westward.--Fort Snelling.--Man of-the-Sky.--Log Cabin.--Dr. Williamson.--Ripley.--Lane Seminary.--St. Peters Church.--Dr. Riggs.--New England Mary.--Lac-qui-Parle. CHAPTER II. The Lake-that-Speaks.--Indian Church.--Adobe Edifice.--First School.--Mission Home.--Encouragements.--Discouragements.--Kaposia.--New Treaty.--Yellow Medicine.--Bitter Winter.--Hazlewood.--Traverse des Sioux.--Robert Hopkins.--Marriage.--Death.--M. N. Adams, Oak Grove.-- J. P. Williamson, D.D. CHAPTER III. Isolation.--Strenuous Life.--Formation of Dakota Language Dictionary. --Grammar.--Literature.--Bible Translation.--Massacre.--Fleeing Missionaries.--Blood.--Anglo Saxons Triumph.--Loyal Indians.--Monument. CHAPTER IV. Prisoners in Chains.--Executions.--Pentecost in Prison.--Three Hundred Baptisms.--Church Organized.--Sacramental Supper.--Prison Camp.--John P. Williamson.--One Hundred Converts.--Davenport.--Release.--Niobrara. --Pilgrim Church. CHAPTER V. 1884--Iyakaptapte.--Council.--Discussions.--Anniversaries.--Sabbath.-- Communion.--The Native Missionary Society. CHAPTER VI. 1905--Sisseton.--John Baptiste Renville.--Presbytery of Dakota. AMONG THE SIOUX. PART ONE. SOWING AND REAPING. [Illustration: FORT SNELLING.] They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing Precious Seed, Shall doubtless come again With rejoicing, Bringing his sheaves. _Psalm 126._ Chapter I. _Now appear the flow'rets fair_ _Beautiful beyond compare_ _And all nature seems to say,_ "_Welcome, welcome, blooming May._" It was 1834. A lovely day--the opening of the merry month of May! The Warrior, a Mississippi steamer, glided out of Fever River, at Galena, Illinois, and turned its prow up the Mississippi. Its destination was the mouth of the St. Peters--now Minnesota River--five hundred miles to the north--the port of entry to the then unknown land of the Upper Mississippi. The passengers formed a motley group; officers, soldiers, fur-traders, adventurers, and two young men from New England. These latter were two brothers, Samuel William and Gideon Hollister Pond, from Washington, Connecticut. At this time, Samuel the elder of the two, was twenty-six years of age and in form, tall and very slender as he continued through life. Gideon, the younger and more robust brother was not quite twenty-four, more than six feet in height, strong and active, a specimen of well developed manhood. With their clear blue eyes, and their tall, fully developed forms, they must have attracted marked attention even among that band of brawny frontiersmen.