They proposed, in order to settle the terms of peace, that the two chiefs, Polina, or as some give the name, Penina, chief of the Snakes, and Queapama, chief of the Warm Springs and Wascos, should meet half way alone and unarmed.

It required two more shots to finish him, and thus died Polina, or Penina, the leader of the Snakes and scourge of the white man.

by Penina Kishore.

by Penina Kishore.