. Buffalo land: an authentic account of the discoveries, adventures, and mishaps of a scientific and sporting party in the wild West; with graphic descriptions of the country; the red man, savage and civilized; hunting the buffalo, antelope, elk, and wild turkey; etc., etc. ... The appendix comprising a complete guide for sportsmen and emigrants. novelty of the occasion, therefore,brought the entire population around the postmaster of Hays, Mr. Hall, had once tradedamong the Choyennes and, understanding their sign-language, acted as interpreter. This curious race hastwo distinct w
. Buffalo land: an authentic account of the discoveries, adventures, and mishaps of a scientific and sporting party in the wild West; with graphic descriptions of the country; the red man, savage and civilized; hunting the buffalo, antelope, elk, and wild turkey; etc., etc. ... The appendix comprising a complete guide for sportsmen and emigrants. novelty of the occasion, therefore,brought the entire population around the postmaster of Hays, Mr. Hall, had once tradedamong the Choyennes and, understanding their sign-language, acted as interpreter. This curious race hastwo distinct ways of conversing—one by mouth, in asingularly unmusical dialect, and the other by mo-tions or signs with the hands. The latter is thatmost generally understood and employed by scoutsand traders. One of the Indians now took from a sack a red-claypipe, with a ridiculously long bowl and longer shank,and inserted into it a three-foot stem, profusely orna-mented with brass tacks and a tassel of paintedhorse hair. This was handed to White Wolf, togetherwith a small bag of tobacco, in which the Killikinnickleaves had been previously crumbled and were a bright red, evidently used for theirfragrance, as they only weakened the tobacco withoutadding any particular flavor. We were struck with w WO PI >- oPI HWp] T) O PItnt«O?3 rPIS. THE PROFESSOR IX A DILEMMA. 169 the Indian mode of smoking. The chief took a fewquick whiffs, emitting the fumes with a hoarse blow-ing like a miniature steam-engine. He then passedit, mouth-piece down so that the saliva might escape,and it commenced a slow journey around the it reached our worthy professor he found himself in a sore dilemma. No smoke had ever curledalong the roof of his mouth, or made a chimney ofhis geological nose. For an instant the philosopheihesitated; then, reflecting that passing the pipe wouldbe worse than choking over it, the excellent manput the stem to his mouth and gave a pull whichmust have filled th
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