CHAPTER XXII. 



A Return Visit Indian Dogs -\Jt& Coquettes Their "Get up "The 

 Children Indian Bucks Trading Glimpses of Indian Social Life- 

 Married Women, 



LEAVING our men to take care of camp, we returned the 

 visit paid us by our new neighbours the "Lite's ; and found 

 there was quite a large party of them fifteen tents. As 

 we approached we could see the women running from 

 all directions into their tepees just like so many rabbits 

 scudding for their burrows on the appearance in their warren 

 of a dog. At the edge of the Indian encampment we dis- 

 mounted, were met by our newly-made acquaintances, sur- 

 rounded with a crowd of bucks and papooses, and yelped 

 and snapped at by a pack of Indian dogs. 



The Indian dog, of which the half-starved wild-looking 

 brutes " yapping " at us were specimens, is, I believe, the 

 only indigenous North American dog. In appearance he 

 looks like what might be expected from a cross between a 

 Scotch collie and the small European wolf. He is gene- 

 rally of a whitish colour, clouded with patches of inter- 

 mixed blackish-ash and brown ; with sharp cock ears, 



