. In the bosom of the Comanches;. all should move the next day. Sometimes theywould cover twenty or thirty miles in one day, and onthe day of break-up for the move everyone got in a greathurry, and more especially the squaws, who had to gatherup all the belongings and attach them to the pack horsesand mules. They would tie the tepee poles on each sideof a horse or mule by one end and let the other end poles were from twelve to twenty feet long, and onsuch they would pile their impedimenta, until one couldscarcely see the back of the horse or mule bearing theburden. The children that
. In the bosom of the Comanches;. all should move the next day. Sometimes theywould cover twenty or thirty miles in one day, and onthe day of break-up for the move everyone got in a greathurry, and more especially the squaws, who had to gatherup all the belongings and attach them to the pack horsesand mules. They would tie the tepee poles on each sideof a horse or mule by one end and let the other end poles were from twelve to twenty feet long, and onsuch they would pile their impedimenta, until one couldscarcely see the back of the horse or mule bearing theburden. The children that were too large to be carriedon their mothers backs and not large enough to ridealone were tied on some old horse which moved with theprocession. As an improvised ambulance for the sick orwounded they would tie a buffalo skin from one pole toanother and fasten one end of the poles to the packsaddles, the other ends dragging on the ground. Whilesuch locomotion seemed rough, it always answered the In the Bosom of the Comanches 105. QUANAH PARKER, in Costume. 106 In the Bosom of the Comanches purpose. It frequently happened in moving that some ofthe pack mules or horses would become frightened orstampeded, and in their fHght scatter the sundry packagesand household plunder for miles in every direction, re-quiring several days to collect up the fragments and re-assemble the animals and their belongings. In movingfrom one district to another the men and boys woulddivide their time between chasing deer, antelope, andbuffalo, and driving the horses. They would beginmoving operations just as early in the morning as theycould; and as to who should get started first in the movingthere was great rivalry, since the first to reach the newcamp ground had choice of location. As before stated, the tepees were arranged in the orderof streets. One of the reasons for this was that of enablingthe warriors to parade first one street and then the otherin their efforts to arouse and incite the Indian
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