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British Columbia (Canada) (search for this): article 17
Horrible instance of Indian Superstition. --The British Colonist, published in British Columbia, relates that a Hydah Indian boy, who had been employed as a scullion for several months at a hotel, was recently missed, but after a while was discovered in close confinement in a lodge of the Stickeen Indians. He was bound hand and foot, and was reduced to a mere skeleton, for want of food and water. The boy's version of the affair is, that he was clandestinely seized by a number of the Stickeen Indians, and taken to the lodge in which he was discovered by the police, where he was shown a sick Hydah, and told that until that man recovered, he would be kept in close confinement, without food; if the man died, he would be killed; if he lived, he would be set at liberty. The captive was then bound with ropes and gagged, so as to prevent him from calling for assistance, and placed in a corner of the room, where he remained without food or water for nine days. During this time the