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Hunting Grounds at the same instant. This result will 

 not, however, prevent a repetition of the treatment with 

 the next patient. . The tenacity of life of an Indian is most 

 remarkable. 



He will carry off as much lead as a buffalo bull, and 

 to ' drop him in his tracks ' the bullet must reach the 

 heart, the brain, or the spine. 



I was once with a force of troops which camped 

 near a large band of Comanches, on the Llano Eiver, in 

 Texas. An Indian came into camp wounded, and our 

 surgeon was asked to see him. When he returned he 

 told me that a heavy bullet had penetrated from the 

 rear, just at the junction of the pelvis and thigh bones, 

 breaking both. The wound was some eight days old, 

 mortification had set in, and the man died that night. 

 It subsequently transpired that the Indian had been 

 wounded in a fight with troops near Fort Inge, had 

 kept his seat, escaped his pursuers, and had ridden alone 

 a distance of over 100 miles (in an air line), crossing the 

 Guadalupe Mountains. A white man would have in- 

 stantly fallen from his horse on receiving such a wound, 

 and never could have moved, much less mounted a horse. 



There was at Fort Mason a worthless old Tonkaway 

 Indian, a beggar and hanger-on of the garrison, who 

 had but one foot. Colonel May, then commanding, told 

 me that this Indian had, when alone, some miles from 

 the post, found a bee tree. On cutting it down to get 

 at the honey his foot was caught, crushed, and held in 

 such a way that he could not free himself. For three 

 days he remained in this condition, hoping some one 

 would find him. He then made a fire of such leaves 

 and twigs as he could reach, and, taking out his knife, 

 dislocated the foot at the ankle joint, stopping the flow 

 of the blood by searing the arteries with fire coals. 

 When free he made his way to the post, where his stump 

 was properly dressed by the surgeon. 



I have myself seen an Indian go off with two bullet 



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