History of Vermilion County, together with historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and other authentic, though, for the most part, out-of-the-way sources . the Indians in playing a gamesimilar to that of -pitching horse-shoes; that they were employed inanother game resembling ten-pins,in which the stone would be graspedon its concave side by the thumb andTermilion county, 111. (H. N. Rusts second finger, while the fore-fingerCollection.) rested on the outer edge, or rim, and that by a peculiar motion of the arm
History of Vermilion County, together with historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and other authentic, though, for the most part, out-of-the-way sources . the Indians in playing a gamesimilar to that of -pitching horse-shoes; that they were employed inanother game resembling ten-pins,in which the stone would be graspedon its concave side by the thumb andTermilion county, 111. (H. N. Rusts second finger, while the fore-fingerCollection.) rested on the outer edge, or rim, and that by a peculiar motion of the arm in hurling the stone it woulddescribe a convolute figure as it rolled along upon the ground. Wemay suggest that implements like this might be used as paint cups, astheir convex surface would enable the warrior to grind his pigmentsand reduce them to powder, preparatory to decorating his person. The implements illustrated were, no doubt, put to many otheruses besides those suggested. As the pioneer would make his house,furniture, plow, ox yokes, and clear his land with his axe, so theIndians, in the poverty of their supply, we may assume, were com-pelled to make a single tool serve as many purposes as their ingenu-ity could CHAPTER XX. THE WAR FOR THE FUR TRADE. Fokmeely the great Northwest abounded in game and small lakes and lesser water-courses were full of beaver, otterand muskrats. In the forests were found the marten, the raccoon,and other fur-bearing animals. The plains, partially submerged,and the rivers, whose current had a sluggish flow, the shallow lakes,producing annual crops of wild rice, of natures own sowing, teemedwith wild geese, duck and other aquatic fowl bursting in their veryfatness.* The turkey, in his glossy feathers, strutted the forests, some ofthem being of prodigious size, weighing thirty-six pounds, f The shy deer and the lordly elk, crowned with outspreading horns,grazed upon the plain and in the open woods, while the solitar
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