The New York herald., 1879-10-30

ing the soldiers. He had delivered the message,
and this was why so many came back.
PURsUNE CONES BACK.
On Sunday most of them were in camp. They
saw they had the soldiers hemmed in a canyon
and We're merely guarding them. Pursune
came back, wearing pair Of blue soldiers pam
falcons with yellow stripes on the legs. He
took them off and gave them to me for pillow.
His legs were protected with leggings and he
did not need them
NEWS OF THE BELEAGUERED SOLDIERS.
! asked the Indians before Brady came where
the soldiers were. They replied that they were
''still in that cellar" and the Indians were kill
ing their ponies when they went for water in
the night. They said:-
"lndians stay on mountains and white
soldiers; soldiers no see Indian. White soldier
not know how to fight"
WAR DANCE.
One of their favorite amusements was to put
on a negro soldiers cap, a short'co and blue
pantaloons, and initiate the negroes in speech
and walk. could not help laughing because
they were SO accurate in their personations.
On Sunday they made pile of sagebrush as large
as awashstand and put soldiers clothes and % hat
on the pile; then they danced war dance and
sang as they waltzed around it. They were in
their best clothes, with plumes and fur dancing
caps, made of skunk skins and grizzly bear
skins, with ornaments Of eagle feathers. Two
or three began the dance, others joined, until a
ring US large us house was formed. There
were some squaws, and all had knives. They
charged on the pile Of coats with their knives
and pretended that they would burn the brush.
They became almost insane with frenzy and
excitement. The dance lasted from two o'clock
until sundown. Then they took the coats and
all went home.
AN ALL NIGHT COUNCIL.
On Sunday night Jack came and made big
speech, also johnson. They said more troops
they say had been brought from Chief Ouray.
They were in great commotion, and did not
know what to do. They talked all night and
the next morning they struck half their tents
and put them up again. Part were for going
away, part for staying. Jacks men were all
day coming up into camp. They left on Tues
day for Grand River, and we had a long 1ide
LONG MARCH IN THE DUST.
The cavalcade was fully two miles long. The
wind blew o hurricane, and the dust was SO
thick we could not see ten feet back on the
line, and could write my name on my hand in
the dust. Most of the Indians had had no
breakfast, and we travelled all day without
dinner or water. Mother had neither saddle nor
stirrups, but merely few thicknesses Of canvas
strapped on the horses back while the young
chiefs pranced round OH good saddles. She did
npt reach Grand River until after dark and the
III. for an invalid and aged woman was long
and distressing. The camp that night was il
the sage brush In the morning, Wednesday
we moved five miles down the river.
MISS JOSEPHINE MAKES BREAD.
A part of the agency herd was driven along
with the procession, and beef was killed each
day. AS was requested to cook most of the
time and make the bread did not suffer from
the filth OF ordinary Indian fare.
While at this camp Pursune absented himself
four days and brought in three fine horses and u
lot of lead, which he made into bullets. John
son also had sack of powder. The chief
amusement was running bullets.
MEDICINE SONG.
No whites are admitted to the tents while the
Utes sing their medicine songs over the sick,
but L, being considered one of Pursunes family,
was allowed to remain. When their child was
sick his family asked me to sing with them,
which did. The Medicine Man knees close
to the sufferers, with his back to the spectators
while he sings in series of high keyed
grunts gradually reaching lower and solemn
tone. The family join, and ut intervals he
howls so loudly that one can hear him mile !;
then his voice dies away and only gurgling
sound is heard, as if his throat were full of
water. The child lay nearly stripped. The
doctor presses his lips against the breast of the
sufferer and repeats the gurgling sound. He
sings few minutes more, and then all turn
around and smoke and laugh and. talk. Some
times the ceremony is repeated all night. as
sisted Mt two of these medicine festivals. Mrs.
Prices boy became expert ut singing Ute songs,
and they sang to each other on the journey home.
The sick bed ceremonies were very strange and
weird, and more interesting than anything saw
in all my captivity of twenty-three days.
NEARLY A STAMPEDE.