. Indian history for young folks . mongthe Plains Indians led long ago tothe adoption of a sign language,an almost perfect means of com-munication in constant use to thisday. Of the Comanches a recent writ-er says : These fierce, untamedsavages roam over an immenseregion, eating the raw flesh of the buffalo, drinking its warm blood, and plundering Mexicans, Indians, andwhites with judicial impartiality. Arabs and Tartars of the desert, theyremove their villages (pitching their lodges in regular streets and squares)hundreds of miles at the shortest notice. The men are short and stout,with brigh
. Indian history for young folks . mongthe Plains Indians led long ago tothe adoption of a sign language,an almost perfect means of com-munication in constant use to thisday. Of the Comanches a recent writ-er says : These fierce, untamedsavages roam over an immenseregion, eating the raw flesh of the buffalo, drinking its warm blood, and plundering Mexicans, Indians, andwhites with judicial impartiality. Arabs and Tartars of the desert, theyremove their villages (pitching their lodges in regular streets and squares)hundreds of miles at the shortest notice. The men are short and stout,with bright, copper faces and long hair, which they ornament with glassbeads and silver gewgaws. Catlin says of them : In their movements they are heavy and ungrace-ful, and on their feet one of the most unattractive and slovenly races Ihave ever seen; but the moment they mount their horses they seem atonce metamorphosed, and surprise the spectator with the ease ana graceof tiieir movements. A Comanche on his feet is out of his element, and. ,u MEDICINE-CHIEF. to-onon I oo 2 5
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