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Chief, of whom there was some distrust in the notion. They were both in the square where the ceremonials had been gone through Kahn'yah'tah'hee arose from his seat, and, with a white flag waving, met the marauders as they broken into the square. Both Chiefs were murdered brutally on the spot. Some days subsequently, the invaders having withdrawn, the people returned. Carrion birds had devoured the body of the one chief; but that of the other, Kahn'yah'tah'hee, the Beloved of all, was untouched, and unchanged even in death. His hand still grasped the violated Flag of Peace, and upon his dead lips lingered a benignant smile. Mike Waters, the brother in law of Gist, told me he was the first person upon whom Gist tried his Alphabet. He then taught a son of Waters. His first combinations were for such exclamations or descriptions of sound as might most strike attention; for example, he began with Yoh-hoo-hah- to represent the grunting of a hog. In the outset of his labours, he first attempted to make a sign which should represent a whole sentence. Afterwards, he tried only whole words. Then he broke a word and tried the parts in different forms; and thence fell into the framing of syllables.