You see he calls himself Dorman--Low Dorman.

That's only French for 'Sleeping Water,' his Injin name!--'Low Dorman.'" "You mean 'L'Eau Dormante,'" said Nellie.
"That's what I said.

The chief called him 'Sleeping Water' when he was a boy, and one of them French Canadian trappers translated it into French when he brought him to California to school.

But he's an Injin, sure.

No wonder he prefers to live in the woods." "Well ?" said Nellie.
"Well," echoed her father impatiently, "he's an Injin, I tell you, and you can't of course have anything to do with him.