" WAUKARUSA.'' 35 



must be converted into marketable robes, and the 

 flesh into jerked meat, by the ugly and over-worked 

 partner of his bosom. While she pins the raw hide 

 to earth, and bends patiently over, fleshing it with 

 horn hatchet for weary hours, the stronger vessel, his 

 abdominal recesses wadded with buffalo meat, toasts 

 his moccasined feet by the fire, fills his lungs with 

 smoke from villainous killikinick, and muses sooth- 

 ingly of white scalps and haji^iy hunting grounds. 



Ox-like maiden, happy " big injun ! " you both be- 

 long to an age and a history well nigh past, and let us 

 rejoice that it is so. 



But to return to the band long since gathered into 

 aboriginal dust whom we left pausing on the banks 

 of the Waukarusa. " Deep water, bad bottom ! " 

 grunted the braves, and, nothing doubting it, one lov- 

 ing warrior pushed his wife and her pony over the 

 bank to test the matter. From the middle of the 

 tide the squaw called back, "Waukarusa" (thigh 

 deep), and soon had gained the opposite bank in 

 safety. Then and there the creek received its name, 

 " Waukarusa." 



We procured a remarkable sketch, in the well 

 known Indian style of high art, commemorative of 

 this event. It has always struck us that the savage 

 order of drawing resembles very much that of the 

 ancient Egyptian — except in the matter of drawing 

 at sight, with bow or rifle, on the white man. 



