4. 37 Interviewer‘ s Comment Gillespie has an excellent reputation, as indeed have most of the ex-slaves in this city. He is clear and unfaltering in his memory. He 18 deliberate and selects what he means to teli. lie is never discourteous. He I s a little nervous and cannot be held long at a im. Indian ch~ir-. acteristics in hirn are not especially prominent, but you note them readily after learning of his ancestry. He is brown but slightly copper in color, and his profile has the typical Indian appearance. He is a little taciturn, and. sometimes acts on his decisions before he announces them, I cultivated him about three weeks.