. The white Indian boy : the story of Uncle Nick among the Shoshones. But. Am. Ethnology, Smithsonian InstitutionChief Washakie (center) and two of his Shoshone braves (Wyoming).. y >. ^ He said that it would have to be cut off. V^ CHAPTER THIRTEEN LIVELY TIMES After the trading party had been gone two days, the restof our band moved down the creek to where it sank inthe sand hills. Here three of the wounded Indians gotso bad that we had to stop for some time; but we hadthe finest of grass for our horses, and the sage hens wereas thick as could be. One day I was out shooting chickens. I had
. The white Indian boy : the story of Uncle Nick among the Shoshones. But. Am. Ethnology, Smithsonian InstitutionChief Washakie (center) and two of his Shoshone braves (Wyoming).. y >. ^ He said that it would have to be cut off. V^ CHAPTER THIRTEEN LIVELY TIMES After the trading party had been gone two days, the restof our band moved down the creek to where it sank inthe sand hills. Here three of the wounded Indians gotso bad that we had to stop for some time; but we hadthe finest of grass for our horses, and the sage hens wereas thick as could be. One day I was out shooting chickens. I had killedfour with arrows and was coming home, when, as I waspassing a tepee, a dog jumped out and got me by theleg. He tore off quite a piece of my flesh and I shot himthrough with an arrow, leaving the feathers on one sideof him and the spike sticking out of the other. As I wastrying to catch the dog to get my arrow back, the oldsquaw that owned him ran up with a rope. She threwit over my head and jerked me along to her there she held me while her girl tied my feet andhands. Then the angry old squaw grabbed a butcherknife and was going to cut my head off. A sick
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