Thus passed away two lustra of her life, and, as yet, my daughter remained nameless upon the earth. My child, and my love, were the designations usually prompted by a father's affection, and the rigid seclusion of her days precluded all other intercourse. Morella's name died with her at her death. Of the mother I had never spoken to the daughter;—it was impossible to speak.

The gorge widens out slightly after leaving Pa-tung, giving room for piles of gigantic débris from the neighbouring mountains to obstruct the river and create numerous small rapids, which we surmount in the usual painful manner. The country is wild and desolate-looking in the extreme, and well explains the poverty of the Pa-tung district.

Medicine bundle containing birdskin, weaselskin; weaselskin headdress, buffalo saddle blanket, lightning painted horses, ermineskin fringe shirt.

The battlefield—an undulating, parched, and dusty expanse—is lying under the sultry sun of a July afternoon.