It was to him her first tribute of fruit or flowers, furs, mocassins, or ornamental plumage of rare birds was offered.

She seemed to turn to him as to a master and protector.

He was in her eyes the _"Chief,"_ the head of his tribe.

His bow was strung by her, and stained with quaint figures and devices; his arrows were carved by her; the sheath of deer-skin was made and ornamented by her hands, that he carried his knife in; and the case for his arrows, of birch-bark, was wrought with especial neatness, and suspended by thongs to his neck, when he was preparing to go out in search of game.

She gave him the name of the "Young Eagle." While she called Louis, "Nee-chee," or friend; to Catharine she gave the poetical name of, "Music of the Winds,"-- Ma-wah-osh.
When they asked her to tell them her own name, she would bend down her head in sorrow and refuse to pronounce it.