534 SIGN LANGUAGE AMONG NORTH AMORICAN INDIANS. 
Of enemies, or other game than Buffalo. See also NOTES ON 
CHEYENNE AND ARAPAHO SIGNALS. 
The discovery of enemies is indicated by riding rapidly around in a 
circle, so that the signal could be seen by their friends, but out of sight 
of the discovered enemy. (Dakota I.) 
When enemies are discovered, or other game than buffalo, the senti- 
nel waves his blanket over his head up and down, holding an end in 
each hand. (Omaha 1; Ponka 1.) 
Of game, wood, water, &c. 
This is communicated by riding rapidly forward and backward on the 
top of the highest hill. The same would be communicated with a blanket 
by waving it right and left, and then directly toward the game or what- 
ever the party might be searching for, indicating that it is not to the right 
or to the left, but directly in front. (Dakota I.) 
DRILL, MILITARY. 
“Tt is done by signals, devised after a system of the Indian’s own in- 
vention, and communicated in various ways. 
“Wonderful as the statement may appear, the signaling on a bright 
day, when the sun is in the proper direction, is done with a piece of 
looking-glass held in the hollow of the hand. The reflection of the 
sun’s rays thrown on the ranks communicates in some mysterious way 
the wishes of the chief. Once standing on a little knoll overlooking 
the valley of the South Platte, I witnessed almost at my feet a drill of 
about one hundred warriors by a Sioux chief, who sat on his horse on a 
knoll opposite me, and about two hundred yards from his command in 
the plain below. For more than half an hour he commanded a drill, 
which for variety and promptuness of action could not be equaled by 
any civilized cavalry of the world. All I could see was an occasional 
movement of the right arm. He himself afterwards told me that he 
used a looking-glass.” -(Dodge’s Plains of the Great West, loc. cit., pp. 
307, 308.) 
FRIENDSHIP. 
If two Indians [of the plains] are approaching one another on horse- 
back, and they may, for instance, be one mile apart, or as far as they 
can see each ocher. At that safe distance one wants to indicate to the 
other that he wishes to be frieudly. He does this by turning his horse 
around and traveling about fifty paces back and forth, repeating this 
two or three times; this shows to the other Indian that he is not for 
hostility, but for friendly relations. If the second Indian accepts this 
proffered overture of friendship, he indicates the same by locking the 
fingers of both hands as far as to the first joints, and in that position 
raises his hands and lets them rest on his forehead with the palms 
