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to the Nez Perce Reserve.  There are six or seven houses on this Reserve, in one of which a White man lives.  Here I got my dinner, after which I found the Interpreter, who sent for Chief Joseph.  Joseph was not at home, having gone to another part of the Reservation.  I waited for the return of the messenger until about four o'clock, when I was arrested by a body of four armed White men and one Nez Perce Indian, who took me by force to the Ponca Agency, some fifteen or twenty miles away.  These men informed me that I