chapter xix, _post_, was situated about six miles above the mouth

of Maria's River, a little below a cluster of small islands, on the west side of the river, opposite bold bluffs. It was maintained until 1844. In that year Culbertson having been transferred to another post, Chardon and Harvey, in command at Fort Mc Kenzie, took summary vengeance on the neighboring Indians for theft by discharging cannon at them as they came to trade at the post, and killing over thirty. Thereupon the traders were forced by native hostility to abandon this fort and retreat to the newly-constructed Fort Chardon, near Judith's River (see note 53, _ante_, p. 71). The Indians burned Fort Mc Kenzie, which was thereafter spoken of as Fort Brulé, and its site as Brulé Bottom.--ED.

[76] Those Indians are called soldiers at the trading posts who are employed as a kind of police to maintain order among their own people.--MAXIMILIAN.

_Comment by Ed._ Catlin painted a portrait of a Blackfoot chief and medicine man named White Buffalo. See his _North American Indians_, i, p. 34, Plate 15.