Chapter 3
CECIL AND THE WAR-CHIEF.Children of the sun, with whom revenge is virtue.
Young.
On the next day came the races, the great diversion of the
Indians. Each tribe ran only one horse,—the best it had. There were
thirty tribes or bands, each with its choicest racer on the track.
The Puget Sound and lower Columbia Indians, being destitute of
horses, were not represented. There had been races every day on a
small scale, but they were only private trials of speed, while
to-day was the great day of racing for all the tribes, the day when
the head chiefs ran their horses.
The competition was close, but Snoqualmie the Cayuse won the
day. He rode the fine black horse he had taken from the Bannock he
had tortured to death. Multnomah and the chiefs were present, and
the victory w
