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fortunate boy bristled like a porcupine. They then set 

 fire to the splinters, and danced and yelled with delight 

 when the poor boy cried and screamed with anguish. 

 When the fire burned out they left him tied to the tree, 

 exposed naked to the cold of that elevated region. Next 

 morning he was tied, nearly dead, on a horse, and carried 

 with the party, but after going about ten miles was 

 found to be dead. He was then scalped, and his body 

 flung among some rocks, where it was afterwards found 

 by troops sent in pursuit. 



In 1868 an attack was made by a party of Indians on 

 a station of the Kansas Pacific Eailroad. One man who 

 happened to be outside was captured ; the other two or 

 three successfully defended their position, to the great 

 exasperation of the red skins, who, after losing several 

 men, drew off. Just at nightfall they took their captive 

 to a position in plain view, but just beyond shot of the 

 station, stripped him of his clothing, fastened him on his 

 back to the ground, built a fire on his naked breast, and 

 sat around it warming themselves with great apparent 

 satisfaction. The cries and groans of the victim could 

 be plainly heard by his friends; but nothing could be 

 done, and it was not until far in the night that the 

 cessation of his cries proved that life was extinct. Next 

 morning the blackened and half-burned body was found 

 still fastened to the ground, not only scalped, but, being 

 an unusually hairy man, almost skinned, and the flesh cut 

 and hacked from the bones. 



I have before said that the Indians are fond of 

 children. In their raids on each other and on the whites 

 those children which are large enough to help themselves 

 a little, and not so large as to be likely to have strong 

 affection or memory, are carried off to the tribe and 

 adopted into it. These foster children are treated by the 

 Indians as their own, grow up, become warriors, or are 

 sold in marriage, exactly as the other children of the 

 families adopting them. 



