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them to leave & you may judge they were anxious to bid good bye. when they in the early spring - perhaps of 40. [[underlined]] launched their frail boat at K. [[/underlined]] (sick wife) came by river they are remembered as good but [[sinful?]] [[underlined]][[weeping?]] [[/underlined]] friends - few can realize what their kids were. Mr Smith may possibly be living yet. I had a letter from him 6 or 7 years ago. home N.Y.

Nez Perce Sun Dance - yearly place of meeting near what is now Walla-Walla there the big pole was around which they used to dance naked [[Billy?]] says he was awful afraid of touching it & dying upon the spot.  "All Hail the prince of Jesus name" when. We think of the change. Some of the Nez P. were hurt that Eastern people should think they [[underlined]] might [[/underlined]] be [[underlined]] effected [[/underlined]] by the late  Craze. & wanted me to write [[underlined]] quick [[/underlined]] & tell the white friends - No. No.

Mr Spaulding came in 36. left in 47. returned 67. died here Lapwai 73. the same year my sister came here.  Mr D came in 78. I came in 79. 

They with all other tribes have traditions about the flood. & [[underlined]] want [[/underlined]] to believe they are descendants of Israel - in many things much alike. the giving of tithes & first fruits to the priests the the nearest of kin marrying the widow so the the inheritance would remain . Stoning the