. In the bosom of the Comanches;. ^ hadbeen given the opportunity. Such captives had foimd theIndians hospitable and generous, dividing liberally andfreely any and everything they had or could get thatwould minister to the pleasiue and comfort of the cap-tured. Strange as it may seem., the savage tribes had In the Bosom of the Comanches 141. 142 In the Bosom of the Comanches many of the instincts and finer imi^ulses and emotionsinherent in the best races of people and civilization theworld over. During my captivity with the Comanche Indians Ilearned their speech and Hngo pretty thoroughly. Som
. In the bosom of the Comanches;. ^ hadbeen given the opportunity. Such captives had foimd theIndians hospitable and generous, dividing liberally andfreely any and everything they had or could get thatwould minister to the pleasiue and comfort of the cap-tured. Strange as it may seem., the savage tribes had In the Bosom of the Comanches 141. 142 In the Bosom of the Comanches many of the instincts and finer imi^ulses and emotionsinherent in the best races of people and civilization theworld over. During my captivity with the Comanche Indians Ilearned their speech and Hngo pretty thoroughly. Somefour or five hundred words comprise their vocabulary,consisting almost wholly of nouns and adjectives. Theirspeech embodies mainly the names of objects. Thedeficiency in language as to their emotions, shades offeeling and descriptive utterances found an amplifiedexpression in the art of gesticulation, in which they wereboth masterful and graceful. They had no patronymicsor surnames, and derived their individual names fromsome closely connected circumistance, event, or happening,trivial or otherwise, and these names, even with chiefs,passed out forever with the bearer thereof. In closing this autobiography I refrain from recitingmany incidents, in the hope that I may avoid the pro-lixity of too volimiinous a narrative. Within the sco
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