OH, SHOOT! 



There followed an absorbing two weeks, 

 during which we accomplished much that we 

 had come for. We held those contests, and 

 no Poughkeepsie excursion steamer was ever 

 more thickly crowded at an intercollegiate 

 rowing race than was the Wisdom. Indians 

 swarmed over her until she threatened to cap- 

 size; they rushed from rail to rail, to the 

 despair of the camera man, who was busily 

 grinding away. We spent much time ashore, 

 surrounded by troops of adoring boys, who 

 clung to us and followed us everywhere. It 

 was not so easy to gain the women's confidence 

 and to take their pictures; we were put to 

 many stratagems and cultivated consider- 

 able teamwork in doing so, but we succeeded. 

 Evenings, the men came off to visit us, and 

 rows of naked boys perched along the rails 

 like blackbirds. We told them about other 

 Indians in other lands, about tribes who lived 

 far from the ocean and rode horses, like the 

 white men; about others who dwelt in the 

 far north, where it was never warm and where 

 the sea grew solid with the cold, so that men 

 could stand upon it, where dogs were driven 

 to sleds, where houses were built of snow and 

 people walked with big nets on their feet. I 



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