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Events turned out as I had predicted : the expedition started, 

 saw a few Indians in the distance whom they failed to catch, 

 remained out about three months, harassed in every way by 

 the Indians, and returned having done nothing. 



In the meantime, " Little Crow's " band, finding themselves 

 cut off from their hunting-grounds, rose against their leader, 

 who fled to Fort Garry and was shot by a Scotch settler, for 

 the price put on his head by the U.S. Government. His men 

 came in and gave themselves up, and were tried by court- 

 martial, some three hundred of them being condemned to be 

 hung. This wholesale sentence was, however, not carried out, 

 orders being sent from Washington that all the Indians should 

 be retried, and eventually only thirty-two or three were hung 

 at Mankato, a square platform being erected, round the sides of 

 which they were executed. 



Curiously enough, while walking one day in the streets of 

 St. Paul's, I found among a number of photographs of Indians 

 a portrait of the man who had broken my arm, whose name 

 was Ki-chi-ma-ka-ses, " the Little Fox/' and who was chief of 

 one section of the Sioux. He had come frequently into St. 

 Paul's before the massacre, and had been photographed, as had 

 also " Little Crow " and many other Sioux. I found there was 

 a reward of a thousand dollars on his head ; but it would not 

 have been advisable to have stopped in St. Paul's on the chance 

 of getting it, as there was no one, except Badger, to prove that 

 I had killed him. 



I went to a surgeon about my arm, and found that the half- 

 breed doctor had merely tied some splints round it, and that 

 now it was too late to do anything, the bones having set 

 themselves, giving me a stiff arm for life, but not interfering 



