The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1859-11-15
INDIAN LIFE.
Ut CAPTAIN JOHN ". roRD.

. ne Culci OI Dulu Ol IhlUiUCUPS I5'
ally makes talk TO his people very early
iu tho morning, impartIug the news, and
discussing its purporl; this is succeeded by
his orders.
When Il change Of carp is contemp!at
cd, the women gather the animals, saddle
and pack them. The lodges are taken
down and placed on animals. Tho men
and women ride s'tcr the same fashion,
Very young children are on horseback, ut
an age they would not be suffered to man.
age horse with us in an enclosure. The
point Of destination is known to all. The
families leave as they get really, except
on some extraordinary occa i)n, or when
danger is apprchendod. In any event.
they have q number of warriors rs look
outs on every side. It is almost impossi.
bic to approach n Camanche camp without
being discovered
When moving with their women and
children, party OF Cananches exhibit
scenes Of liveIincss, the women talking,
laughing, and running pack animals and
keep them in placo-children with bow
and arrow in hand, beating thickets for
small game, shooting snakes, running hel
ter skelter in every dirccion--mules going
at half speed ever rocky places, with long
lodge poles trailing on either side making
Il noise louder than 50 many empty wagons
young warriors, with CANDY trappings,
frolicking and gibipg-when all these
things are jumbIed together into discor-
dant mass, then it is really exciting to be
travelling with the red children Of til for.
est. Sometimes Stampede occurs to
give additional variety 10 the scene. On
such an occasion. the dogs or the ccebra
ted chief, Buffalo Hump. felt called upon
TO Go something; they gave chase to the
running horses. Du1nlo Hump became
fuioCs-wth strung bow and ready ar.
rows he followed the dogs. The race was
over an nndu'ating prairie kind of country,
and lasted some mile or SO. The cnraIed
Indian shot his dogs and stopped his h0rs-
IS. Tho cunning Of the animal cIulad
The impending harm. Tho old chief, with
all his subtlety, was long time fojlcl by
his canine companions. The sconory-Lho
stanpcdo--thc cha,e--the mailoned In.
dian, made panorama worth seeing, but
hardly paving Cor The trouble Of reading.
A halt being made. the women arrange
cverythnr-takn care Of the horses, set
mp tho lodges, pack the wool and water,
and cook.
Tho warriors lounge about, gather in
groups, and talk over matters and thing
in general. la thing, they cannot proper.
~ conp.chcni AMI account Cor, in som,
wav, they possess con,idcabl, incraluijy.
They deny the tales they hear Of tho speed
Of railway locomotive. When some of
them were Informed steam car could ran
nom the Colorado 70 Ch,hnalua, in Mex-
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lmf'''.D. "a horse could not run that
Tar 10 Gay.
hey HaIe q gam" winch may be called
"innl the bullet Ihn players SIT down
IN " tie'c--siaf curious EiHd OF song;
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TO h2nd, throwing h.> am> II every posi-
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