. The Pacific tourist . to take one day at these splendid Springs, for the enjoyment of their fare-well pow-wow, but it proved to be a had medi-cine day Eor them. When they saw the com-pany of cavalry that had unfortunately beenexposed to their view, they ran out to gather intheir horses, which were quietly feeding in the the chief. He was seen, as the troops approached, mounted upon his horse, with his wife and childbehind him, trying to escape, but when he foundhis retreat eul off, he ran into apocketordraw, in the sideof a ravine, with almost per-pendicular sides, where some fifteen other w
. The Pacific tourist . to take one day at these splendid Springs, for the enjoyment of their fare-well pow-wow, but it proved to be a had medi-cine day Eor them. When they saw the com-pany of cavalry that had unfortunately beenexposed to their view, they ran out to gather intheir horses, which were quietly feeding in the the chief. He was seen, as the troops approached, mounted upon his horse, with his wife and childbehind him, trying to escape, but when he foundhis retreat eul off, he ran into apocketordraw, in the sideof a ravine, with almost per-pendicular sides, where some fifteen other war-riors hail taken refuge. He hail a very fine horse,which he led to the month of this pocket andshot dead. He then took his wife and child andpushed them np on the bank of the her, as lie did this, to go and give them-selves np, perhaps their lives would lie squaw and her child, a beautiful girl, wentstraight to Major {forth, and raising her handsin token of submission, drew them gently over. vicinity of their camp, a mile or more was no lime for delay. The troops andscouts charged down upon them with all theirspeed. The scouts, as usual, set up their infernalwar-whoop, and went, in with a rush. The In-dians were wholly unprepared for the attack,andsome of them were quietly lounging in theirtents. In fact it was nearlj mplete surprise. They were all under the lead of Tall Hull, a noted shief ami warrior, and numbered about live hundred men, women and children—nearlyor quite two hundred being warriors. Seventeen squaws and children were taken pris is, and as near as could be estimated, one hundred andsixty warriors were slain, among them Tall Bull, COSTUMES. his face and down his form to the ground, whereshe sank upon her knees, her child standing be-side her. While Major North can talk Pawneelike a native, he could not understand what shesaid, hut as all Indians use sign language to agreat extent, lie readily interpreted her motionsto me
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