of the state. Of their general
condition he says:
About three-fourths of the entire population can read in their own language, ami,
though the majority of them understand English, a very few can speak the language.
They practice, to a considerable extent, the science of agriculture, ami have acquired
such a knowledge of the mechanic arts as answers them for all ordinary purposes,
for they manufacture their own clothing, their own ploughs, and other farming uten-
sils, their own axes, and even their own guns. Their women are no longer treated as
slaves, hut as equals; the men labor in the fields and their wives are devoted entirely
to household employments. They keep the same domestic animals that are kept by
their white neighbors, and cultivate all the common grains of the country. They
are probably as temperate asthe manner of the white man, but far more picturesquely. They live in small
log houses of their own construction, ami have everything they need or desire in the
way of food. They are, in fact, the happiest community that I have yet met with
in this southern country. -
Among the other notables Lanman speaks thus of Sala'li, "Squirrel,"
a born mechanic of the band, who died only a few years since:
He is quite a young man and has a remarkably thoughtful face. He is the black-
smith of his nation, and with some assistance supplies the whole of Quallatown with
all their axes and plows; but what is more, he has manufactured a number of very
superior rifles and pistols, including stock, barrel, and lock, ami he isalso the builder
of grist mills, which grind