[The Log School-House on the Columbia by Hezekiah Butterworth]@TWC D-Link bookThe Log School-House on the Columbia CHAPTER XI 7/10
"We found him raving about the two murdered men, Hall and Wood," says Jewett.
"Maquina placed provisions before him, but he would not eat." At last the distressed _tyee_, induced by hunger, put forth his hand to touch the food.
But he suddenly drew it back, saying that Hall and Wood were there. "They will not let me eat," said he, with a look of despair and terror. Maquina pointed to Thompson and Jewett. "Is it they who have bewitched you ?" he asked. "_Wik_ (no); John _klashish_ (is good), Thompson _klashish_ (is good)." He arose and piteously put his hand on Jewett's shoulder, and, pointing to the food offered him, he said, "Eat." "Eat it yourself," replied Mr.Jewett.
"Hall and Wood are not there." "You can not see them," he answered; "I can.
I know that you can not see them." "What do you do in your own country in such cases as this ?" asked Maquina. "We confine the person and whip him," said Jewett. The chief ordered that the haunted warrior should be confined and whipped; but the pain did not relieve the warrior's mind of the terrible vision of the two men that he had killed.
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