Genealogy and recollections . eold chiefs son and son-in-law and their wives in anothercabin, and a widow squaw, the old chiefs daughter, livedby herself in a cabin adjoining her brother and brother-in-law. None of them had any children but the old chief. Afew minutes after I went into this funny Indians cabinhe asked me if I wanted to shave. I told him yes, mybeard was very long. He then got a razor and gave it tome. It was a very good one. I told him it wanted went and brought his shot-pouch strap. He held oneend and I the other end. I gave the razor a few passeson the strap, an
Genealogy and recollections . eold chiefs son and son-in-law and their wives in anothercabin, and a widow squaw, the old chiefs daughter, livedby herself in a cabin adjoining her brother and brother-in-law. None of them had any children but the old chief. Afew minutes after I went into this funny Indians cabinhe asked me if I wanted to shave. I told him yes, mybeard was very long. He then got a razor and gave it tome. It was a very good one. I told him it wanted went and brought his shot-pouch strap. He held oneend and I the other end. I gave the razor a few passeson the strap, and found the razor to be a very good this time the old chiefs young squaw had come over;she immediately prepared some hot water for me to shave,and brought it in a tincup and gave it to me, and a pieceof very good shaving soap. By the time I was done shav-ing the young squaw had prepared some clean water in apewter basin for me to wash, and a cloth to wipe myhands and face. She then told me to sit down on a bench; [146]. At our Rancho APPENDIX I did so. She got two very good combs, a coarse and a fineone. It was then the fashion to wear long hair; my hairwas very long and very thick and very much matted andtangled; I traveled without any hat or anything else on myhead; that was the tenth day it had not been combed. Shecombed out my hair ver>^ tenderly, and then took the fineone and combed and looked my head nearly one then went to a trunk and got a ribbon and queued myhair very nicely. The old chiefs son then gave me a verygood regimental blue cloth coat, faced with yellow buff-colored cloth. The son-in-law gave me a very good beavermacaroni hat. These they had taken from some officersthey had killed. Then the widow squaw took me into hercabin and gave me a new ruffled shirt and a very goodblanket. They told me to put them on; I did so. When Ihad got my fine dress on, the funny Indian told me to walkacross the floor. I knew they wanted to have a little p
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