CHAPTER XXVII.

Excitement about Indians--Dr. White's Flogging Law--Indian Revenge--Raid of the Klamaths--Massacre of Indians--Affray at the Falls--Death of Cockstock--Death of LeBreton and Rogers--"You'd Better Run"--Meek's Policy with the Indians--Meek and the Agent--The Borrowed Horse--Solemn Audacity--Wonderful Transformation--Temperance--Courts--Anecdote of Judge Nesmith--Early Days of Portland--An Indian Carousal--Meek "Settles the Indians"--The Immigration of 1845--The Cascade Mountain Road-Hunters--Hunger and Peril--A Last Request--Succor at the Last Moment--A Reason for Patriotism, 306