So the two brothers
left him tied to the tree after trying to persuade him to give them the
sack, and in the morning they went home, thinking that their folk might
become alarmed at their long absence. Upon their arrival they told
what they had done, and after eating they went back to the Indian and
began another bargain with him. At this he agreed to give them all the
wealth he had if they would let him go, but he still refused to give up
the ac-gure sack, as it contained poison, and a charm which they could
never use unless he told them how, and this he would never do. So they
finally agreed to take his wealth and let him go, so he led them to his
home which was west and south to a place on Redwood Creek, where there
was a cave in a clump of large rocks, some twenty-five miles from their
home. When they went into this cave-house they found that he had great
wealth stored there, and they took it all home, leaving him there with
his ac-gure to gather up more wealth with, and he was never seen again.
The Klamath Indians never kill these Wild Indians, but in many cases
where they had caught them, they most always found that they were rich
by robbing graves of wealthy people, and that they always had the
ac-gure. The wealth that these two Mo-reck Indians received from this
Wild Indian made the Mo-reck village so rich that it never afterwards
had to ask help from any one to carry their part through any of the
great festivals. These Wild Indians are evidently a former part of our
own cast-off people and of late years have entirely disappeared and the
Indians are wondering what has become of them. Some think they have
gone back into the tribe in other places or went out and mixed with the
present white people so as not to be known by them.
CHAPTER XXX.
HOW A COR-TEP GIRL HAD HER WISH GRANTED.
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