They bore their confinement with admirable patience, the more so as they were punished for the fault of others.

When they were released, they were furnished with guns and clothing.

For fear they would be killed by the Dahcotahs, their release was kept a secret, and the Dahcotahs knew not that the two Chippeways were released, until they were far on their journey home.

But one of them never saw his native village again.

The long confinement had destroyed his health, and being feeble when he set out, he soon found himself unequal to the journey.