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burying place of the Indians. It was here that the great Indian
chiefs were buried. Here and there are strewn the skulls and bones
of many Indians. The/ever curious white man has plundered this
graveyard for the trinkets and arrowheads that the Indians carried
with them to their graves.
The old Columbia still flows onward to the sea. The night
wind blows down its "’canyons as of yore. No more isseen the grace
ful canoe upon its surface. No more is heard the sound of battle
along its shores. All‘that is left of the Indian is his history.
—Ronald S. McKenzie, ’ll.