. Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans. s from theIndians and eat them. Sometimes they ate became fond of the meat of dogs andhorses. When they w^ere very hungry, they had to liveon roots if they could get them. Some of theIndians made a kind of bread out of roots. Thewhite men bought this when they could not getmeat. But there were days when they did nothave anything to eat. 92 They were very friendly with the Indians. Oneday some of the men went to make a visit to an Indian village. The 1 ^ ^^X>»^S& Indians gave themsomething to eat. In the Indian wig-wam where
. Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans. s from theIndians and eat them. Sometimes they ate became fond of the meat of dogs andhorses. When they w^ere very hungry, they had to liveon roots if they could get them. Some of theIndians made a kind of bread out of roots. Thewhite men bought this when they could not getmeat. But there were days when they did nothave anything to eat. 92 They were very friendly with the Indians. Oneday some of the men went to make a visit to an Indian village. The 1 ^ ^^X>»^S& Indians gave themsomething to eat. In the Indian wig-wam where they were,there was a head of adead buf-fa-lo. Whendinner was over, theIndians filled a bowlfull of meat. Theyset this down in frontof the head. Thenthey said to the head, Eat that. The Indians be-lieved, that, if theytreated this buf-fa-lohead po-lite-ly, the livebuf-fa-loes would cometo their huntingground. Then theywould have plenty ofmeat. They think the spirit of the buf-fa-lo is akind of a god. They are very careful to pleasethis Feeding the Spirit of the Buffalo. 93 CAPTAIN CLARKES BURNING GLASS. The Indians among whom Captain Clarke andCaptain Lewis traveled had many strange ways ofdoing things. They had nothing like our matchesfor making fire. One tribe of Indians had thisway of lighting a fire. An Indian would lay downa dry stick. He would rub this stick with the endof another stick. After a while this rubbine wouldmake something like saw-dust on the stick that waslying down. The Indian would keep on rubbingtill the wood grew hot. Then the fine wood dustwould smoke. Then it would burn. The Indianwould put a little kin-dling wood on it. Soon hewould have a large fire. In that time the white people had not yet foundout how to make matches. They lighted a fire bystriking a piece of flint against a piece of would make a spark of fire. By letting thisspark fall on something that would burn easily,they started a fire. White men had another way of lighting
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