aspirations, their education and capacity, their songs, amusements, legends, business, loves and hates, his descriptions lack no element of a faithful portrait; while his lightest illustrations have always beneath the surface a meaning which cannot fail to arrest the attention of the American people, and enable them to understand this national problem. Never before have we had just such a witness on the stand. Brilliant and graphic in description, and exceedingly happy in his choice of topics, he gives us pages startling and interesting as a novel. While his appeals stir the heart like a clarion, he still keeps cautiously to sober fact; and every statement, the most seemingly incredible, is based on more than sufficient evidence. I _commend this book to the public_——study it not only as accurate and striking in its pictures of Indian life, but as profoundly interesting to every student of human nature,——the picture of a race fast fading away and melting into white men’s ways. His contribution to the solution of one of the most puzzling problems of American statesmanship is invaluable. Destined no doubt to provoke bitter criticism, I feel sure his views and statements will bear the amplest investigation. His volume will contribute largely to vindicate the President’s policy, and to enable, while it disposes, the American people to understand and do justice to our native tribes. (Signed,) WENDELL PHILLIPS. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE. HON. A. B. MEACHAM _Frontispiece._ GEN. CANBY 480 DOCTOR THOMAS 512 THE LONE INDIAN SENTINEL 8 THE BULL-DOG TRADE 26 FAREWELL TO ONEATTA 73 THE BIRTHPLACE OF INDIAN LEGENDS 142 GRAND ROUND AGENCY 109 THE HORSE RACE 197 CAPT. JACK 295 TOBEY AND RIDDLE 320 MODOCS ON THE WAR-PATH 404 WI-NE-MAH (TOBEY) 444 ASSASSINATION SCENE 492 BRINGING IN THE WOUNDED 531 WARM SPRING INDIAN PICKETS 568 SCHONCHIN AND JACK IN CHAINS 588 BOSTON CHARLEY 641