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thea leluctantly given up. Several times during the chase the Indians reined up 

 their well-trained horses on the higher rolls of the prairies and formed in line as if 

 intending to give battle; hut before our men could get within gunshot they were 

 off again with lightning speed across the plain. On returning to the spot where our 

 men had fallen, a closer examination showed how hard and desperate had been the 

 struggle. Lieutenant Hull had received no less than thirty arrow and lance wounds 

 before he fell, and the broken stock of one of Colt's ritles was still retained in the 

 grasp of a stout man named Mayby, plainly telling us that he had fought to the last, 

 and that after discharging the piece he had still continued the combat. The heart 

 of one of the men was cut out, and had not the Indians been driven off the other 

 bodies would have been mutilated in the same way. Two of the horses of our 

 unfortunate comrades were lanced close by ; the others were probably in better con- 

 dition and more able to run, and had been taken oft' as spoils by the savages. It 

 was evident euougli that Lieutenant Hull and his men had retreated from the 

 Indians until they had found it impossible to elude them, and that they had then 

 thrown themselves from their horses in a body and sold their lives at a fearful rate. 

 The resistance they made had probably territied their adversaries and induced them 

 to fly when they saw our party coming np, although they outnumbered the Texans 

 at least as three to one. 



A party of fifty well-armed men, taking with them shovels, were sent out imme- 

 diately on the melancholy errand of burying our 

 murdered companions, while the main body retraced 

 their steps toward the Quiutufue. . . . 



They [the Kiowas] appear to be mi terms of peace 

 with the New Mexicans so far as it suits their interest 

 and convenience — no further; at one time trading 

 and exchanging their skins in amity, and almost in 

 the same breath making a di'scent upon the unpro- 

 tected frontiers, plundering and frequently murdering 

 the inhabitants. When we passed through their 

 country a party of Mexican traders were among them 

 bartering meal, blankets, and trinkets for buffalo and 

 deer skins. Some of these Mexicans we afterward 

 saw, and from them learned that ten of their war- 

 riors, besides a principal chief, were killed by Lieu- 

 tenant Hull and his brave companions before thev were ^'°- 86-Sammor 1842-Ropeated 

 overpowered. Ihe traders also gave ns an account 



of their ceremonies on returning to camp with their scalps and trophies. A wild 

 dance was executed by the braves in celebratu)n of their victory, while the 

 women tore their hair and fjiccs and ran naked through the prickly pear and thorn 

 bushes in token of their grief for the loss of their husbands and brothers (Ken- 

 dall, »'). 



SUjMMER 1842 



A'daldii Kddo, "Repeated sun dance." The summer is called by 

 tlii.s name because, as indicated iu the figure, it was remarkable lor two 

 sun (lances held at the same place on A' dilo Fht or "Sun-dance creek" 

 (Kiowa Medicine-lodge creek, which enters the North Canadian near 

 100^). This could happen only when two iudividuals in succession had 

 been so instructed iu dreams. In this instance the two dreamers 

 belouged to different camps and made their requests of the iaime 

 keejier almost simultaneou.sly. After the first sun dance, when the 

 taliiie priest had goue home, instead of taking down the medicine loilge 

 and building a new one, they decked it with fresh leaves and held the 

 second dance iu it. 



