1837-1839.--The Language.--Its Growth.--System of Notation.--After Changes.--What We Had to Put into the Language.--Teaching English and Teaching Dakota.--Mary's Letter.--Fort Renville.--Translating the Bible.--The Gospels of Mark and John.--"Good Bird" Born.--Dakota Names.--The Lessons We Learned.--Dakota Washing.--Extracts from Letters.--Dakota Tents.--A Marriage.--Visiting the Village.--Girls, Boys, and Dogs.--G. H. Pond's Indian Hunt.--Three Families Killed.--The Village Wail.--The Power of a Name.--Post-Office Far Away.--The Coming of the Mail.--S. W. Pond Comes Up.--My Visit to Snelling.--Lost my Horse.--Dr. Williamson Goes to Ohio.--The Spirit's Presence.--Prayer.--Mary's Reports 58 CHAPTER IV. 1838-1840.--"Eagle Help."--His Power as War Prophet.--Makes No-Flight Dance.--We Pray Against It.--Unsuccessful on the War-Path.--Their Revenge.--Jean Nicollet and J. C. Fremont.--Opposition to Schools.--Progress in Teaching.--Method of Counting.--"Lake That Speaks."--Our Trip to Fort Snelling.--Incidents of the Way.--The Changes There.--Our Return Journey.--Birch-Bark Canoe.--Mary's Story.--"Le Grand Canoe."--Baby Born on the Way.--Walking Ten Miles.--Advantages of Travel.--My Visit to the Missouri River.--"Fort Pierre."--Results 76 CHAPTER V. 1840-1843.--Dakota Braves.--Simon Anawangmane.--Mary's Letter.--Simon's Fall.--Maple Sugar.--Adobe Church.--Catharine's Letter.--Another Letter of Mary's.--Left Hand's Case.--The Fifth Winter.--Mary to Her Brother.--The Children's Morning Ride.--Visit to Hawley and Ohio.--Dakota Printing.--New Recruits.--Return.--Little Rapids.--Traverse des Sioux.--Stealing Bread.--Forming a New Station.--Begging.--Opposition.--Thomas L. Longley.--Meeting Ojibwas.--Two Sioux Killed.--Mary's Hard Walk. 89 CHAPTER VI. 1843-1846.--Great Sorrow.--Thomas Drowned.--Mary's Letter.--The Indians' Thoughts.--Old Gray-Leaf.--Oxen Killed.--Hard Field.--Sleepy Eyes' Horse.--Indian in Prison.--The Lord Keeps Us.--Simon's Shame.--Mary's Letter.--Robert Hopkins and Agnes.--Le Bland.--White Man Ghost.--Bennett.--Sleepy Eyes' Camp.--Drunken Indians.--Making Sugar.--Military Company.--Dakota Prisoners.--Stealing Melons.--Preaching and School.--A Canoe Voyage.--Red Wing. 104 CHAPTER VII.