We kept on further up the river, and when night came we stopped, and sat down in some bushes.  All day long we had seen nothing that we could kill; but from a fold in his robe my uncle drew some dried meat, and we built a little fire of dried willow brush, that would make no smoke, and over this we roasted our meat, and ate; and my uncle talked to me again, saying:  “My son, I like to have you come out with me, and travel about over the country.  You have no father to teach you, and I am glad to take you with me, and to tell you the things that I know.  It is a good thing to be a member of our tribe, and it is a good thing to belong to a good family in that tribe.  You must always remember that you come of good people.  Your father was a brave man, killed fighting bravely against the enemy.  I want you to grow up to be a brave man and a good man.  You must love your relations, and must do everything that you can for them.  If the enemy should attack the village, do not run away; think always first of defending your own people.  You have a mother, and sisters, who will depend on you for their living, and for their credit.  They love you, and you must always try to do everything that you can for them.  Try to learn about hunting, and to become a good hunter, so that you may support them.  But, above all things, try to live bravely and well, so that people will speak well of you and your relations will be proud.

“You are only a boy now, but the time will come when you will be a man, and must act a man’s part.  Now your relations all respect you.  They do not ask you to do woman’s work; they treat you well.  You have a good bed, and whenever you are hungry, food is given you.  Do you know why it is that you are treated in this way?  I will tell you.  Your relations know that you are a man, and that you will grow up to go to war, and fight; perhaps often to be in great danger.  They know that perhaps they may not have you long with them; that soon you may be killed.  Perhaps even to-night or to-morrow, before we get back to the camp, we may be attacked, and may have to fight, and perhaps to die.  It is for this cause that you are treated better than your sisters; because at any moment you may be taken away.  This you should understand.”

After we had eaten it began to grow dark, and pretty soon my uncle stood up and tied up his waist again, and we set out once more, going up the river.  I wanted to ask my uncle where we were going, but I knew that he had some reason for moving away from the camp, and before I had spoken to him about it we had gone a mile or two, and it was quite dark, and we stopped again in another clump of bushes.  Here we sat down, and my uncle said to me:  “My son, here we will sleep.  Where we stopped and ate, just before the sun set, was a good place to camp, but it may be that an enemy was watching from the top of some hill, and may have seen us go into those bushes.  If he did, perhaps he will creep down there to-night, hoping to kill us; and if there were several persons they may go down there and surround those bushes.  I did not want to stop there where we might have been seen, and so when it grew dark we came on here.  We will sleep here, but will build no fire.”