CHAPTER XXXVII.

Lane's Course with the Cayuse Indians--Magnanimity of the Savages--Rebuke to Their Captors--Their Statements to Meek--The Puzzle of Indian Ethics--Incidents of the Trial and Execution--State of the Upper Country for A Term of Years--How Meek Was Received in Oregon--His Incurable Waggishness--Scene in a Court-Room--Contempt of Court--Judge Nelson and the Carpenters--Two Hundred Lies--An Excursion by the Oregon Court--Indians Tried for Murder--Proceedings of a Jury--Sentence and Execution of the Indians--The Chief's Wife--Cost of Proceedings--Lane's Career in Oregon--Gov. Davis, 408