478. “The Thunder’s Nest” (Nid du Tonnerre), and a party of Indians cautiously approaching it, Coteau des Prairies.
Tradition of the Sioux is that in this little bunch of bushes the thunders are hatched out by quite a small bird, about as large (say their Medicine-men, who profess to have seen it) as the end of a man’s thumb. She sits on her eggs, and they hatch out in claps of thunder. No one approaches within several rods of the place.
479. Sac and Fox Indians sailing in canoes, by holding up their blankets.
480. Grand Tournament of the Camanchees, and a Sham Fight in a large encampment, on the borders of Texas.
481. Bogard, Bàtiste, and I, travelling through a Missouri bottom, grass ten feet high.
482. Band of Sioux, moving.
483. Bogard, Bàtiste, and I, descending the Missouri River.
484. Bogard, Bàtiste, and I, eating our breakfast on a pile of drift wood, Upper Missouri.
485. Medicine Buffalo of the Sioux, the figure of a buffalo cut out of the turf on the prairie, and visited by the Indians going on a buffalo-hunt.
486. Bogard, Bàtiste, and I, chasing a herd of buffalo in high grass, on a Missouri bottom.