The Arkansas advocate., 1835-05-15

;hs coHiHiofi apparel. They are, Tn fact, . very common looking Indian, much inferior m person 10 the Osages, the Shawnees, the Delawares, or any of the Mexican tribes, except the Apaehes. saw few of them possessng that acute sns;sa sns;s! q; the same tune dlgnified look common 10 the Aboriginal. They are of middle helght, and like all h. dians, have good limbs, and long black hair, which they leave uncut. Some of them had their hair joined behind to buffalo or horse hair, and Il rope of the latter de- pending from 1t which nearly reached the ground. The old women, particularly, were hideously ugly. limagine that there is no being on earth who would De IS valu- able to painter desirous of sketching his satanic majesty, as an old Gnmanche wo- man. They reminded me strongly of Arab women, whom l have seen painted cut in divers veritable books of travels. The same high eheek-bones-e-long black hair brown, smoked, parehment-like skin bleared eyes, and fiendish look --belong to the women of both nations. While looking at them, ] could hardly help shu3derine, IS the thought would strike mo, that possibly they might, ere long, have an opportunity ot exercising tue mlernai ingenuity of thelr nature oil me. Several of Us went to their village, distant from Us perhaps three hun dred yards, and bNught wood and q little dried buffalo meat of them, with tobacco and vermiiion. The young man, in parti- eular, who was the only intellgent-looking Indian among thern, took especial painsto obtain me some meat, and likewise offered me good horse for red cloth enough to make him pair of eggins. ] had no such article. however. Horses are their only riches, There were about thousand of them round this village, and few mules. I particularly observed one mule in the mark of Agustin Duran, custom-house officer at Santa Fe. In the evening the same young fellow came down and invited Harris and his clerk, Bill Williams aud myself, to % up and eat with him. Taking our guns, we went accordingly. We found the old chief and his family outside of the lodge, seated round fire, over which a small brass kettle was hanging. On our arrival, we were motioned to our seats with true Indian gravity, and something of respect
 The contents of the brass kettle were then emptied into wooden bowl, and placed be- fore Us. Ii was the boiled flesh of fat buff falo COW, perfectly fresh, having been killed that day-and a most delicious meal il was to us. Kettle after kettle was filled and 1 enptied, between us and tne family of the chief; for 1t takes but five minutes to boil this meat. A man never knows how much meat he can eat, until he has tried the prai- re; but assure the reader that four pounds al meal IS no great allowance, especially to hungry man. On ending the supper, We paid them with tobacco and a knife or two, and returned to our camp not, however, without that indispensable ce- remony, a general smoke, in which my pipe went once or twice round the whole party, women and all. The next morning, the chief wished us to lay by day or two, and hunt buffalo. He assured US that there was an abundance of buffalo cows on q lake about nine miles 10 the northeast, and that his young men should accompany our hunters there. We declined remaining, chiefly through apprehension of treaehery. Finding that we would not remain, he pro- missed us that at the next village his son and daughter in law should join us and con- duct us to the beaver. He said that we should find beaver in nine days.
 10 be Continued.