visits. A second obstacle would be the great distance from any post of the Hudson Bay Company; consequently tile
difficulty of procuring what is strictly necessary. 'The lake is highly romantic, and is from forty to fifty miles long. Mountainous and rocky islands of all sizes are scattered over its bosom, which present an enchanting prospect.
These islands are filled with wild horses. Lofty mountains surround the lake and rise from its very brink.
On the 16th of April, after bidding adieu to my traveling companions, I started early in the morning, accompanied by two Canadians and two savages. That evening we encamped close to a delightful spring, which was warm and sulphurous, having traveled a distance of about fifty miles. When the savages reach this spring they generally bathe in it. They told me that after the fatigues of a long journey they find that bathing in this water greatly refreshes them. I found here ten lodges of the Kalispel tribe; the chief, who was by birth of the Nez Percé tribe, invited me to spend the night in his wigtivam, where he treated me most hospitably. This was the only small Kalispel camp that I had as yet met in my journeys. I here established, as I have done wherever I stopped, the custom of morning and evening prayers.
During the evening the chief, who had looked very gloomy, made a public exposition of his whole life. " Blackrobe," said he, " you find yourself in the lodge of a most wicked and unhappy mail; all the evil that a man could do on earth, I believe I have been guilty of: I have even assassinated several of my near relations; since then, there is nought in my heart but trouble, bitterness and remorse. Why does not tile Great Spirit annihilate me? I still possess life, but there will be neither pardon nor mercy for me after death." These words and tile feeling manner with which they were addressed to me drew tears of compassion
from my eyes. " Poor, unfortunate man," I replied, " you are really to be pitied, but you increase your misery by think
ing that you cannot obtain pardon. The devil, man's evil