CHAPTER XV.

1866-1869.--Prisoners Meet their Families at the Niobrara.--Our Summer's Visitation.--At the Scouts' Camp.--Crossing the Prairie.--Killing Buffalo.--At Niobrara.--Religious Meetings.--Licensing Natives.--Visiting the Omahas.--Scripture Translating.--Sisseton Treaty at Washington.--Second Visit to the Santees.--Artemas and Titus Ordained.--Crossing to the Head of the Coteau.--Organizing Churches and Licensing Dakotas.--Solomon, Robert, Louis, Daniel.--On Horseback in 1868.--Visit to the Santees, Yanktons, and Brules.--Gathering at Dry Wood.--Solomon Ordained.--Writing "Takoo Wakan."--Mary's Sickness.--Grand Hymns.--Going through the Valley of the Shadow.--Death! 230