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very Ugly sore. Just how they poison them 

 I am not able to say from actual knowledge, 

 but persons who have been much among them 

 tell me that to do it they take a piece of fresh 

 meat, and, making a rattlesnake angry, let it 

 bite the meat and inject its venom into it. 

 The meat is then left to putrefy, by which 

 time it is thoroughh' permeated with the 

 poison, and the arrows are then poiso;ied by 

 sticking them into the poisoned meat. These 

 poisoned arrows are carefulh^ kept separate 

 Irom those to be used in hunting. 



They frequentl}- fight among themselves, 

 and more of them are killed in this way 

 than by white men. They exhibit terrible 

 ferocity and unrelenting cruelty in their wars 

 with each other, and those they take pris- 

 oners are always put to the torture. 



A friend of mine named Van Meter related 

 to me the particulars of a torture which he 

 witnessed while among the Ogallah-Sioux 

 Indians. 



A band of Ogallahs had been out one 

 day and had a little skirmish with a squad of 



