464. Mandans attacking a party of Riccarees, whom they had driven into a ravine, near the Mandan village, where they killed the whole number.
465. Chippeways making the portage around the Falls of St. Anthony, with two hundred bark canoes, in 1835.
466. Camanchees moving, and Dog Fight—dogs as well as horses drag the lodge-poles with packs upon them.
These fights generally begin with the dogs, and end in desperate battle; amongst the squaws, to the great amusement of the men.
467. White Wolves attacking a Buffalo Bull.
468. Ditto, ditto—a parley.
469. My horse “Charley” and I, at sunrise, near the Neosho, on an extensive prairie, encamping on the grass; my saddle for a pillow, two buffalo-skins for my bed, my gun in my arms; a coffee-pot and tin cup, a fire made of buffalo-dung, and Charley (a Camanchee clay-bank mustang) picketed near me.
With him alone I crossed the prairie from Fort Gibson, on the Arkansas, to St. Louis, 550 miles.
470. Sioux worshipping at the Red Boulders. A large boulder and two small ones, bearing some resemblance to a buffalo cow and two calves, painted red by the Indians, and regarded by them with superstitious reverence, near the “Coteau des Prairies.”
471. Camanchee Warrior lancing an Osage, at full speed.