What is your tribe?"
Antoine explained his plight in the same
manner, and the two soon came to an under-
standing. The Canadian told the starving hun-
ters of a buffalo herd a little way to the north,
and one of their number was dispatched home-
ward with the news. In two days the entire
band reached Antoine's place. The Bois Brule
was treated with kindness and honor, and the
tribe gave him a wife. Suffice it to say that
Antoine lived and died among the Yanktons
at a good old age; but Ami could not brook
the invasion upon their hermit life. He was
never seen after that first evening.
IV
THE FAMINE
On the Assiniboine River in western
Manitoba there stands an old, his-
toric trading-post, whose crumbling
walls crown a high promontory in the angle
formed by its junction with a tributary stream.
This is Fort Ellis, a mistress of the wilderness
and lodestone of savage tribes between the
years 1830 and 1870.
Hither at that early day the Indians brought
their buffalo robes and beaver skins to exchange
for merchandise, ammunition, and the "spirit
water.
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