Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . MANDAN BUBYING-PLACE. The Indians have, in their different tribes, a varietyof modes of disposing of their dead. Carver saysthe body is attired in the same dress it usually worewhilst living; and other travellers inform us that awarriors arms and his medicine bag are buried withhim, for his use in the world of spirits. It is ascer-tained that, in former times, certain tribes depositedtheir d
Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . MANDAN BUBYING-PLACE. The Indians have, in their different tribes, a varietyof modes of disposing of their dead. Carver saysthe body is attired in the same dress it usually worewhilst living; and other travellers inform us that awarriors arms and his medicine bag are buried withhim, for his use in the world of spirits. It is ascer-tained that, in former times, certain tribes depositedtheir dead in caverns, where many of them have beenfound placed in a sitting posture. The Sioux andMandans (before the extinction of the last-mentionedfribe) erected stages on which they deposited theii. Great Horned-owl of Virginia ADVENTURE AT AN INDIAN BURIAL-PLACE. 133 dead. The engraving above represents a part of theburying-place in the vicinity of the principal villageof the Mandans. We have copied it from an engrav-ing in the splendid work of Prince Maximilian ofWied, entitled Travels in the Interior of NorthAmerica. The prince tells us that near these stageswere several high poles, with skins and other thingshanging on them as offerings to the lord of life, Oma-hank-Numakshi, or to the first man, Numank-Ma-chana. Dr. Richardson, in his eloquent work, Fauna Bo-reali-Americana, relates a thrilling adventure at anIndian burial-place, in which the principal performerwas the Great Horned Owl of Virginia, whose loudand full nocturnal cry, Waugh Oo !—Waugh Oo !issuing from the gloomy recesses of the forest, bearssome resemblance to the human voice, uttered in ahollow sepulchral tone, often alarming the party of Scottish Highlanders, m the service ofthe Hudsons Bay Comp
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