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Boastful travellers, such as this '^ Pawnee," 

 would do well to remember when they name 

 the particular tribe of savages with whom they 

 say they have consorted, that there are other 

 more honest wanderers who have become ac- 

 quainted with some of the many Indian tribes 

 in America, and who know very well whether or 

 not they could have lived with the ^^ Pawnees." 



This travelled man forgot to give to the English 

 reader the full bill of fare of the usual prairie 

 dessert indulged in by the chiefs of his selected 

 entertainers, which dessert is, I am sorry to say, 

 found in the outer crust of the unclean heads 

 of the children of the tribe, which heads, beina- 

 laid in the laps of the chiefs, afford a chase of 

 very small live game with which to garnish the 

 raw bison livers, this lesser game being regarded 

 by these particular chiefs as the real delicacies 

 of their living kitchen. 



The subsequent fate of this traveller induces 

 me to suppose that if he did travel, it was not ^^far 

 West," and if he did meet with the ^' Pawnee " 

 tribe, he feasted as they feasted, or, after being 

 robbed by tliem, he levanted, which would have 

 been very probable had he travelled into the 



