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slender legs, sharp muzzle, thick bushy tail, and slightly 

 oblique eyes; and is always gaunt and hungry-looking, 

 a realisation to me of the idea of the dog-fiend of German 

 legends that I have " evolved out of my inner conscious- 

 ness." 



V 



After a time we were conducted into the tepee of our 

 friend of the silver medal. It was a large buffalo-skin 

 tent, with a good fire of hard wood in the centre, which, 

 being a mass of red-hot charcoal, gave out great heat and 

 no annoying smoke. There was an old squaw and four 

 young ones seated inside, and from the tent poles hung 

 some little flat wickerwork cradles, each with a baby in it. 

 We only stayed a few moments in this tent, and then 

 started on a tour round the encampment. We found little 

 groups of women and children seated on the ground in 

 front of every tent. The women were all painted and 

 dressed to the last agony, and we then understood why 

 they had bolted on first sight of us. It had not been, as 

 in our guilelessness we had supposed, because they were 

 frightened or shy, but because they had been en desliabilU ! 

 In fact, we found they were by no manner of means shy. 

 Au contraire, they appeared quite pleased to attract atten- 

 tion, and the way they used their eyes was quite wonderful. 

 I declare those untutored savage females made eyes 

 in exactly the same way that I have seen some very 

 civilised ladies do. Verily human nature is great and will 

 prevail. 



Taking these Indians as a lot, they were an unusually 

 well-to-do set of savages. They had good tents, were 

 well dressed in buckskins and blankets, had plenty of meat 



