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 . teresting ceremony takes place being uniformlyas soon as this tree is in full leaf; for the Indianssay that the twig which the dove hroiight to the greatcanoe had leaves upon itT They consider this bird assacred, and never attempt to destroy it. On the third day, in the midst of all this dancingand festivity, the village appears to be suddenlythrown into the utmost confusion by the approach
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 . teresting ceremony takes place being uniformlyas soon as this tree is in full leaf; for the Indianssay that the twig which the dove hroiight to the greatcanoe had leaves upon itT They consider this bird assacred, and never attempt to destroy it. On the third day, in the midst of all this dancingand festivity, the village appears to be suddenlythrown into the utmost confusion by the approach ofa man who is seen running about apparently in greattrouble. He is naked and painted black, with theexception of his face, which is frightfully daubedwith red and white. He is called by the Indians theEvil Spirit He runs from lodge to lodge, and be-haves with the greatest rudeness to all whom hemeets; but he is constantly frustrated in his evil de-signs by the conductor, who thrusts his great pipe be-tween him and those whom he assails. At length heis fairly driven out, and the village is again restoredto tranquillity. * The numbers of persons who went into the 2 F 838 THRILLING The buffalo hunt is, next to an Indian battle, themost intensely exciting scene which may be witnessedamong the wilds of the West. To the buffalo, theIndian looks for food, for clothing, and for religiousand household implements. The hunting of that ani-mal he regards as a duty as well as a pleasure; andwhen once it is rumoured through a village that a herdof buffaloes is in sight, then warriors who have faceddeath in a hundred forms bring out their swiftesthorses and spring u23on them; and when the wholeparty rushes across the field to engage the bellowingherd, a scene is presented for which it would be vainto look for a parallel, not merely amid the tame for-malities of civilized life, but even among the desertsand cane-brakes of Africa or the jungles of India. The Indians have se
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