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Title: The Columbia River
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Lyman, William Denison, 1852- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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She was led with other cap-tives into the Shuswap camp. The boasting warriorswere gloating over the poor victim, and the squawswere discussing the greatest possible indignities andtortures for her, when an aged, white-haired chief gotthe attention of the crowd. He declared that hisheart had been opened, and that he now saw thattorture and death ought to end. He proposed thatinstead of shame and torture they should conferhonour on the chieftains child. He said: I canhear the old chief and his squaw weeping all the nightfor their lost daughter. He then proposed that theyadorn the captive with flowers, put her in a j)roces-sion, with all the chiefs loaded with presents, andrestore her to her father. The girl meanwhile, who did not understand aword of the language, was awaiting torture or death.What was her astonishment to find herself decoratedwith honour, and sent with the gift-laden chiefstoward her fathers camp. On the next daj^ themourning chief of the Okanogans and his wife, looking
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In the Heart of the Canadian Rockies 295 from their desolate lodge, saw a large procession ap-proaching, and they said: They are coming todemand a ransom. As the procession drew nearer, one of their mensaid that it looked like a woman adorned with flowersin the midst of the men with presents of robes andnecklaces. Then they cried out: It is our child, andshe is restored to us. So they met the processionwith rejoicing and heard the speech of the old Shuswapchief. And after that there was peace between theShuswaps and the Okanogans. Having returned from Lake Windermere toGolden by small boat,—one of the most charming ofall water trips,—we are prepared to make a new startdown the River. The River from Golden holds a general north-westerly course to its highest northern point in lati-tude 52 degrees. There having received its northmosttributary, Canoe River, a furious mountain stream, itmakes a grand wheel southward, forming what isknown as the Big Bend. This section of the Riverwas n

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