. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . as an .prow. that Ihad SO often seen pictured anil readabout in books, wa- not m evidence, mcsl of them being of ordinary height and somewhat inclined to I Stoop leather strap hanging down the bai k,■ii end being attached to a whisk ofP of the head, the other endnig to or trailing on the out, of the strap was embel-lished ..nil puces of tin and brass, therom the scrap pile backof the tin shop and the brass beggedor toll n from the round hi nstantly kept highly poi-nt h the ai
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . as an .prow. that Ihad SO often seen pictured anil readabout in books, wa- not m evidence, mcsl of them being of ordinary height and somewhat inclined to I Stoop leather strap hanging down the bai k,■ii end being attached to a whisk ofP of the head, the other endnig to or trailing on the out, of the strap was embel-lished ..nil puces of tin and brass, therom the scrap pile backof the tin shop and the brass beggedor toll n from the round hi nstantly kept highly poi-nt h the aid of oil and lampblackobtained from the firemen. During the winter of 1867-8 the In-had been quite inactive, otherthan an occasional raid to the Hlackllill>, at which time every able-bodiedwarrier would be absent from the vil-lage-, and upon their return a pow-wowtvould I held. One of these I attend-1 by a Frenchman whounderstood the Sioux language. Thegathering took place at the freighthouse, ill- chiefs being on the platformwhile the audii on the ground in a semicircle. I bunder was. • (PER VTORS DESK. den 1 The squaws as a \ ei■;.eral rule were quite short and inclined limpness. Nearly all k>\ these In- intily clothed, the men in many instances wearing only a blanket and moccasins, the women a short cal- 1 irt ami sack and red flannel lea-while the children were fre-quently seen clothed in Natures garbonly, conditions hardly suitable, itseemed, for winter weather. The ambition of these redskin-to ornaments rather than clothingBeads, trinkets made of stone or boneand any piece of metal that could besecured and which was susceptibbeing brightly polished was sure to fallinto their hands by fair means or all ^i he bucks wore a long ANTA BARBARA, CAL. r of the occasion, and as hedi scribed their wanderings while away,the number of horses and cattle stolen,the number of scalps taken, etc., hislisteners silently smoked the pipe of. one taking a whiff
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