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energetic, and as sharp as a briar. He and all his people 

 treated me with much friendship. I ate my meals regularly 

 three times a day with him in his lodge. He puts in a 

 good deal of style spreads a carpet for his guests to sit on, 

 and has painted fire-boards, twenty inches wide and three 

 feet long, ornamented with bright brass tacks driven all 

 round the edges, which they use for tables. He has a brass 

 French horn, which he blew vigorously when the meals 

 wn-t' jvjidy.' General Ouster, in his 'Life on the Plains,' 

 speaking of 'Satanta,' says: 'Aside from his character 

 for restless barbarity and activity in conducting merciless 

 forays against our exposed frontiers, " Satanta " is a re- 

 markable man remarkable for his powers of oratory, 

 his determined warfare against the advances of civilisation, 

 ni id his opposition to the abandonment of his accustomed 

 mode of life, and its exchange for the quiet, unexciting, 

 uneventful life of a reservation Indian.' He and * Lone 

 Wolf were captured by the United States troops in 1868, 

 and suffered imprisonment in Texas for some years ; but 

 were afterwards released. 



Other important chiefs of this tribe, are ' Son of the 

 Sun,' ' Dog Eater,' and ' Sleeping Wolf,' all of whom have 

 visited Washington. 



Some of the principal chiefs of the Comanches are 

 ' Ten Bears,' ' Silver Brooch,' ' Wolf's Name,' ' Little 

 Horse,' and ' Iron Mountain.' 



PRINCIPAL INDIAN EVENTS SINCE 1862. 



The principal Indian events which have occurred 

 within the last fifteen years are the following : 



1. The Sioux massacre of whites in Minnesota in 

 1862, which resulted in the deaths of 644 men, women, 

 and children, killed in the several massacres, and of 93 

 soldiers killed in battle. 



