CHAPTER XLI.

Set Apart by Elder Hyde for our Special Mission--Blessing Conferred on the Writer--Discontent In Camp--Unity Again Prevails--Start on our Journey--Warned at Green River to go no Farther--Not Deterred from Performing our Mission--Proceed on our Journey--Futile Chase after Buffalo--Scarcity of Water--A Welcome Snow Storm--Reach the Camp of Washakie, the Shoshone Chief--Received with Caution--Tell the Chief the Object of our Visit--Give him Bread and Sugar--Boiled Buffalo for an Epicure Indian Powwow Called--Proceedings at the Council--Objection to one of our Propositions, which we were not Annoyed at--Recital of how Government Agents Sought to Supplant Washakie as Chief--Washakie a Great Orator.