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length one morning he was missed. All his friends, knowing that 

 in such cases they could never expect to see him again, gave him 

 up as dead. Several weeks had elapsed, when one day Mah-ton- 

 wiss returned to the village on horseback. He had a frightful 

 wound upon his face, around which he had bound a strip from his 

 mantle, so that his friends did not know him. On his neck there 

 hung six fresk scalps, one of which had the ears and part of the 

 forehead of the victim. In short, I need hardly say that it was the 

 second scalp of the " Crow ' Indian, who had survived his first 

 scalping. Mah-ton-wiss had gone alone, had watched night and 

 day for his enemy. He had tracked him on his excursions into the 

 wilderness, living upon almost nothing, until he had finally suc- 

 ceeded in completing his revenge ; and not only that, but he had 

 obtained five scalps besides. A shout, such as savages only know 

 how to raise, went up from the village, and a day of feasting was 

 appointed. Of course Mah-ton-wiss was ranked as a great warrior 

 forever afterwards. 



An Indian of most tribes will never scalp a woman or a child. 

 Perpetual dishonor would be the result, should he dare to present 

 such a trophy to his tribe. So that you will find many rules among 

 savages, concerning this cruel act, which cannot but be commended 

 by everybody. Do my bright-eyed friends still think that scalping 

 is a very cruel act ? Why, a few years ago, two men at Washing- 

 ton, the capital of the civilized part of this hemisphere, went out 

 and deliberately shot at each other with rifles. One of the men 

 was killed upon the spot. Both of these men were members of 

 Congress of the United States. If we hold the poor, benighted, 

 ignorant Indian accountable for all his acts of cruelty, what must be 

 said of some of the " customs" of our own land and times ? How- 

 ever, perhaps we had better leave such questions to be settled by 

 others, and go on with our story. I only mention the circumstance, 

 that you may see that the best of us may have bad habits, and that 

 it is best to be charitable towards those who aie ignorant, and have 

 not been blessed with the light of the everlasting Gospel. 



One day Jollie sauntered carelessly into the fort, and bid me 

 good-by. " Where are you going ?" said I, thinking he was going 

 away himself. "Nowhere," he replied, "nowhere; but you had 



