Chapter II: Book V: The Shadow of the End

I. THE HAND OF THE GREAT SPIRIT 227
II. THE MARRIAGE AND THE BREAKING UP 241
III. AT THE CASCADES 248
IV. MULTNOMAH'S DEATH-CANOE 260
V. AS WAS WRIT IN THE BOOK OF FATE 268

ILLUSTRATIONS.

"'What think you now, Tohomish?'" _Frontispiece_
"'I have spoken; I will not turn back from
my words'" _Facing page_ 50
"'The Earth hears us, the Sun sees us'" _Facing page_ 88
The Great "Witch Mountain" of the Indians _Facing page_ 108
"'I Will kill him!'" _Facing page_ 168
"It was the Death-song of the Willamettes" _Facing page_ 204
"'Come back! Come back!'" _Facing page_ 224
Multnomah's Death-canoe _Facing page_ 264

What tall and tawny men were these,
As sombre, silent, as the trees
They moved among! and sad some way
With tempered sadness, ever they,
Yet not with sorrow born of fear,
The shadows of their destinies
They saw approaching year by year,
And murmured not.

. . . . .

They turned to death as to a sleep,
And died with eager hands held out
To reaching hands beyond the deep;
And died with choicest bow at hand,
And quiver full and arrow drawn
For use, when sweet to-morrow's dawn
Should wake them in the Spirit Land.

JOAQUIN MILLER.

THE BRIDGE OF THE GODS.