I. SHALL THE GREAT COUNCIL BE HELD? 53 II. THE WAR-CHIEF AND THE SEER 69 III. WALLULAH 74 IV. SENDING OUT THE RUNNERS 87 Book III. _THE GATHERING OF THE TRIBES._ I. THE BROKEN PEACE-PIPE 91 II. ON THE WAY TO THE COUNCIL 103 III. THE GREAT CAMP ON THE ISLAND 120 IV. AN INDIAN TRIAL 131 V. SENTENCED TO THE WOLF-DEATH 142 Book IV. _THE LOVE TALE._ I. THE INDIAN TOWN 151 II. THE WHITE WOMAN IN THE WOOD 159 III. CECIL AND THE WAR-CHIEF 169 IV. ARCHERY AND GAMBLING 176 V. A DEAD QUEEN'S JEWELS 181 VI. THE TWILIGHT TALE 191 VII. ORATOR AGAINST ORATOR 200 VIII. IN THE DARK 210 IX. QUESTIONING THE DEAD 217 Book V. _THE SHADOW OF THE END._ I. THE HAND OF THE GREAT SPIRIT 227 II. THE MARRIAGE AND THE BREAKING UP 241 III. AT THE CASCADES 248 IV. MULTNOMAH'S DEATH-CANOE 260 V. AS WAS WRIT IN THE BOOK OF FATE 268 ILLUSTRATIONS. "'What think you now, Tohomish?'" _Frontispiece_ "'I have spoken; I will not turn back from my words'" _Facing page_ 50 "'The Earth hears us, the Sun sees us'" _Facing page_ 88 The Great "Witch Mountain" of the Indians _Facing page_ 108 "'I Will kill him!'" _Facing page_ 168 "It was the Death-song of the Willamettes" _Facing page_ 204 "'Come back! Come back!'" _Facing page_ 224 Multnomah's Death-canoe _Facing page_ 264 What tall and tawny men were these, As sombre, silent, as the trees They moved among! and sad some way With tempered sadness, ever they, Yet not with sorrow born of fear, The shadows of their destinies They saw approaching year by year, And murmured not. . . . . . They turned to death as to a sleep, And died with eager hands held out To reaching hands beyond the deep; And died with choicest bow at hand, And quiver full and arrow drawn For use, when sweet to-morrow's dawn Should wake them in the Spirit Land. JOAQUIN MILLER. THE BRIDGE OF THE GODS. BOOK I. _THE APOSTLE TO THE INDIANS._ CHAPTER I. THE NEW ENGLAND MEETING. Such as sit in darkness and the shadow of death.--_Bible_.