ᎠᏦᎭᏴ ᎠᏂᏓᎪᏎᎬ ᎤᏂᏍᎦᏅᏨ, ᎢᏂᎦᏗᏛ ᏥᏧᏥᏉ ᏥᎨᏒ ᏦᎦᏓᏙᎵᏨ, ᎦᏙ ᎠᏂᏅ ᎠᏓᏴᏍᏔᎩᏍᎩ ᏓᎾᏗᏔᏍᎬ, ᎧᏁᏌ ᎦᏂᏏᏅᏍᏗ ᏕᎦᎶᏛ ᎤᏂᏩᏒ, ᏗᏥᎾᏌ ᎠᏂᎦᏘᏴ ᏩᏳᏍᏙᏗ ᎭᏫᏂ.
At the fort, the growing population of prisoners, many of whom I had known since boyhood, sat in the dirt of the stockade drinking liquor bought from a cart one of my clerks tended just inside the gate.