Chapter 4
ARCHERY AND GAMBLING.To gambling they are no less passionately addicted in the
interior than on the coast.—Bancroft: Native
Races.
The next morning came the archery games. The best marksmen of
each tribe contended together under the eyes of Multnomah, and
Snoqualmie the Cayuse won the day.
These diversions were beginning to produce the result that the
politic chief had intended they should. Better feeling was
springing up. The spirit of discontent that had been rife was
disappearing. Every day good-fellowship grew more and more between
the Willamettes and their allies. Every day Snoqualmie the Cayuse
became more popular among the tribes, and already he was second in
influence to none but Multnomah himself.
The great war-chief had triumphed over every obstacle; and h
