. The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys . e Indians generally take the earliest oppor-tunity to hold a dance over the scalps they have taken. It usually takesplace at night and around a fire, and this practice is turned to advantageby the old Indian-fighters, who sometimes manage to fall on them whileeno-ao-ed in their glorification. They have dances before starting on a o o c? «/ o foray, or proceeding on a peaceful hunt for buffaloes; in fact almost ev-ery event of consequence is thus celebrated. Some of the dances arecommon to all the Indians on the Western plains, while othe
. The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys . e Indians generally take the earliest oppor-tunity to hold a dance over the scalps they have taken. It usually takesplace at night and around a fire, and this practice is turned to advantageby the old Indian-fighters, who sometimes manage to fall on them whileeno-ao-ed in their glorification. They have dances before starting on a o o c? «/ o foray, or proceeding on a peaceful hunt for buffaloes; in fact almost ev-ery event of consequence is thus celebrated. Some of the dances arecommon to all the Indians on the Western plains, while others are pecul-iar to certain tribes. Captain Marcy,in his Army Life on the Border,gives an interesting description of a dance which one of his friends wit- THE YOUNG NIMRODS. / nessed among the Tonkawas, to MvhA^, celebrate the Griffin of the tribe; ^j and as it is conducted with greatsecrecy, there are very few whitemen who have seen it. The performance was givenin a large lodge prepared for the\ t ^\K, occasion. About fifty warriors, \\*. » • \i V. THE COUNTING COUP. dressed in wolf-skins, came in on all fours, and by howling, growling, andquarrelling, they imitated very well the habits of the animals they repre-sented. They kept this up for some time, and then began sniffing at theground, as if searching for something concealed there. By-and-by one of them stopped suddenly, and began to dig in theearth. The rest gathered round to assist him, and in a little while theybrought out a live Indian, who had been buried there previous to theceremony. As soon as they had brought him to view, they ran aroundhim and examined him with the greatest apparent curiosity, as thoughsuch a being had never been seen before. A council of the oldest wolves was called, to determine what to dowith him. The Indian made a speech to the following effect: You have taken me from the spirit-land, where I was contented and ADVICE OF AN INDIAN COUNCIL. 211 happy, and brought me into this world, where I
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