14
who
the Colville chief,
took them to his winter quarters
river, where they ulmarried his two of Finan Macdontimately daughters. in afterwards had of a ald, 1812, charge post among the
at Kettle
Forks on the Columbia
Flatheads in the service of the Northwest Company. Late in the antumn, Pitakamulahnh went into winter quarters with his Similkameen wife at
entertained the other Indians of the whites
as a
of the
Penticton.
He
village with tales
met with on the buffalo hunt and his fame became so widespread that lie was a
story-teller
welcome guest wherever he
men and
of the white attractive.
that he did
In fact
-he
little
else
visited, his vivid descriptions
their doings proving particularly
found
this
occupation so agreeable
and made journeys
usual haunts to gratify his
own
far
from
his
vanity as a narrator and
the curiosity of his eager listeners, a
course
that ulti-
his undoing.
mately proved
The people of Shuswap invited him to visit them and them the wonderful things he had entertained his '
tell
own
people with.
required a whole
First he
month
went
to tell
to
all
Spallumcheen and it knew of the white
he
Next the inhabitants of the village of Kualt, Haltkam and Halaut, on Shuswap Lake and the South
people.
Thompson
river,
him
invited
in
succession
and
at
each
Tokane, the chief of the Kamloops band, also had him pay his village a visit and accorded him a grand reception. place he spent a month.
This round of
much time
that
was not prepared
festivities
when
and story
telling occupied so
spring came again Pilakamulahuh
to join the annual buffalo hunt
on the
Instead, he accepted Tokane's invitation to spend plains. the summer at the Shuswap's fishing grounds at Pavilion