WHEN THE CAMP MOVED, PARALLEL COLUMNS WERE FORMED
In an incredibly short time the whole camp was in motion, and after we came to the spot selected for our new camp-ground, in a very little while tents were up, and stages standing, and meat drying, and work going on as at the other camp. In fact, were it not for the lay of the country one could imagine that the whole village had been lifted from yonder to here without disturbing anything.
Long practice and generations of nomadic life had trained the people to constant moving.
They were "itinerants" even more than the Methodist ministry.
Sunday was a special day. The chief's influence and the presence of the missionaries caused the day to be respected by all, irrespective of creed; and prayer-meetings, and preaching, and song services were continued all day, and manifest interest was shown by the people.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Great horse-race—"Blackfoot," "Moose Hair," and others—No gambling—How "Blackfoot" was captured.