Illustrations of the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians : with letters and notes written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing ; with 360 engravings, from the author's original paintings . at Spirit for the signal success which hadattended their several days of dancing and supplication, ended in a calamitywhich threw the village of the Mandans into mourning and repentant tears,and that at a time of scarcity and great distress. The signal was given intothe village on that morning from the top of a distant
Illustrations of the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians : with letters and notes written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing ; with 360 engravings, from the author's original paintings . at Spirit for the signal success which hadattended their several days of dancing and supplication, ended in a calamitywhich threw the village of the Mandans into mourning and repentant tears,and that at a time of scarcity and great distress. The signal was given intothe village on that morning from the top of a distant bluff, that a band ofbuffaloes were in sight, though at a considerable distance off, and every heartbeat with joy, and every eye watered and glistened with gladness. The dance had lasted some three or four days, and now, instead of thedoleful tap of the drum and the begging chaunts of the dancers, the stamp-ing of horses was heard as they were led and galloped through the village—•voung men were throwing off their robes and their shirts, were seensnatching a handful of arrows from their quivers, and stringing their sinewybows, glancing their eyes and their smiles at their sweethearts, and mountingtheir ponies. * • « * * A few ujiuKtes there had been of bustle and. .Jt 129 boaSting, whilst bows were twanging and spears were polishing by runningtheir blades into the ground—every face and every eye was filled with joyand gladness—horses were pawing and snuffing in fury for the outset, whenLouison Frenie, an interpreter of the Fur Company, galloped through thevillage with his rifle in his hand and his powder-horn at his side ; his headand waist were bandaged with handkerchiefs, and his shirt sleeves rolled upto his shoulders—the hunters yell issued from his lips and was repeatedthrough the village ; he flew to the bluffs, and behind him and over thegraceful swells of the prairie, galloped the emulous youths, whose heartswere beating high and quick for the onset. In the
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