natural orators explained their willingness to enter into

amicable relations with all the surrounding nations, as

well as with the white men.

"But," said Pee-eye-em, the chief of the Shirry-dikas,

a man above six feet high, and of immense muscular

strength--"but my tribe cannot answer for the Banattees,

who are robbers, and cannot be punished, because they dwell in

scattered

families among the mountains. The Banattees are bad; they cannot be

trusted."