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ness iii ideography. The discovery of the other charts presented or 

 referred to in this paper, which differ in their times of commencement 

 and ending from that of Lone-Dog and from each other, removed any 

 inference arising from the above-mentioned coincidence in beginning 

 with the present century. 



Copies of the paper publishing and explaining Lone-Dog's record were 

 widely circulated by the present writer among Army officers, Indian 

 agents, missionaries, and other persons favorably situated, in hopes of 

 obtaining other examples and further information. The result was a 

 gratifying verification of all the important statements and suggestions 

 in the publication, with the correction of some errors of detail and the 

 supply of much additional material. The following copies of the chart, 

 substantially the same as that of Lone-Dog, are now, or have been, in 

 the possession of the present writer: 



1. A chart made and kept by Bo-i-de, The-Flaine (otherwise trans- 

 lated The-Blaze), who, in 1877, lived at Peoria Bottom, 18 miles south 

 of Fort Sully, Dakota. He was a Dakota and had generally dwelt 

 with the Sans Arcs, though it was reported that he was by birth one 

 of the Two Kettles. The interpretation was obtained (it is under- 

 stood originally at the instance of Lieutenant Mans, First United States 

 Infantry) directly from The-Flame by Alex. Laravey, official interpreter 

 at Fort Sully, in the month of April, 1877. 



The facsimile copy in the writer's possession, also made by Lieutenant 

 Beedj is on a cotton cloth about a yard square and in black and red — 

 thus far similar to his copy of Lone-Dog's chart, but the arrangement is 

 wholly different. The character for the first year mentioned appears in 

 the lower left hand corner, and the record proceeds toward the right to 

 the extremity of the cloth, then crossing toward the left and again toward 

 the right at the edge of the cloth — and so throughout in the style called 

 boustrophedon ; and ending in the upper left-hand corner. The gen- 

 eral effect is that of seven straight lines of figures, but those lines are 

 distinctly connected at their extremities with others above and below, 

 so that the continuous figure is serpentine. It thus answers the same 

 purpose of orderly arrangement, allowing constant additions, like the 

 more circular spiral of Lone-Dog. This record is for the years 1786-7 

 to 1870-'7, thus commencing earlier and ending later than that of Lone- 

 Dog. 



2. The-Swan's chart was kindly furnished to the writer by Dr. Charles 

 Ban, of the Smithsonian Institution. It was sent to him in 1872 by 

 Dr. John B. Patrick, of Belleville, Saint Clair County, Illinois, who re- 

 ceived it from Dr. Washington West, of Belleville, Illinois, who became 

 an acting assistant surgeon, U. S. Army, November 2, 1S68, and was 

 assigned to duty at Cheyenne Agency, Dakota, established by General 

 Harney, as one of a number of agencies to become useful as rendezvous 

 for Dakotas to keep them from disturbing the line of the Union Pacific 

 Bailroad. He remained there from November, 18G8, to May, 1870. 



