. Sport and adventures among the North-American Indians. South Saskatchawan to get a supply ofmeat, as the weather was now cold, and the meat would keepuntil spring, freezing so hard that you could kill a man with astrip of it. We took two ponies for packing, hired from A-ta-ka-koup, and we each rode another; and on the third day wearrived at the camp of Badgers father-in-law, a Cree Indian,whose name was Mis-ta-wa-sis, or the buffalo, where weremained two days. Old Mis-ta-wa-sis was also well supplied with wives, havingthree of them, and lived in an immense buffalo-skin lodge, inwhich, beside
. Sport and adventures among the North-American Indians. South Saskatchawan to get a supply ofmeat, as the weather was now cold, and the meat would keepuntil spring, freezing so hard that you could kill a man with astrip of it. We took two ponies for packing, hired from A-ta-ka-koup, and we each rode another; and on the third day wearrived at the camp of Badgers father-in-law, a Cree Indian,whose name was Mis-ta-wa-sis, or the buffalo, where weremained two days. Old Mis-ta-wa-sis was also well supplied with wives, havingthree of them, and lived in an immense buffalo-skin lodge, inwhich, besides his own family, there was room for two of hissons-in-law and their families, and still there was plenty ofroom for us; it was one of the few clean lodges I was everin. He and I got to be very friendly, by the help of signs, andI promised to visit him again as we came back. Two days more travelling brought us to the South Saskatch-awan, both this and the main river being solidly frozen over, sothat we had no difficulty in crossing, and here we found a. Page 30.—Our hut in the Thickwood Hills. A SIOUX PRISONER. 35 large camp of Crees who were much excited about the captureof a Sioux Indian by some members of the tribe; the Sioux andCrees being once more at war, as the peace which had beenmade at Fort Carlton had lasted only one summer. On our arrival we were given a small lodge by an Indian, whoturned one of his wives out of it, and when we had put oursaddles, packs, &c. in it and placed a boy to watch them, wewent to pay a visit to Big Bear the head chief. We foundhim in his lodge, holding a council as to what should be donewith the Sioux, and he hardly noticed us till this was over,when he informed me through Badger, on my inquiring asto the mans fate, that he was to be tortured on the next daybut one. I remonstrated and offered to buy him of them,giving everything I had with me, but to no purpose, and Ileft vowing vengeance which I had no means of executing. On the followi
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