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plained, however, that some Dakotas on the warpath had nearly 
perished with hunger when they found and ate the rotting carcass of 
an old buffalo on which the wolves had been feeding. They were seized 
soon after with pains in the stomach, their abdomens swelled, and gas 
poured from the mouth. This disease is termed tympanites, the ex- 
ternal appearance occasioned by it much resembling that of dropsy. 
Fig. 212, 1827~28.—Dead-Arm was stabbed with a knife or 
dirk by a Mandan. The illustration is quite graphic, show- 
ing the long-handled dirk in the bloody wound and withered 
arm. 
Fig. 213, 1828~29.—A white man named Shadran, who 
lately, as reported in 1877, was still living in the same 
neighborhood, built « dirt lodge. The hatted head ap- 
pears under the roof. This name should probably be A 
spelled Chadron, with whom Catlin hunted in 1832, in the 
region mentioned. 
Fig. 214, 1829-30.—A Yanktonai Dakota was killed by 
3ad-Arrow Indians. 
The Bad-Arrow Indians is a translation of the Dakota 
name for a certain band of Blackfeet Indians. 
Fia. 213. 
Fia. 214. 
Fig. 215, 1830—31.—Bloody battle with the Crows, of whom 
it is said twenty-three were killed. Nothing in the sign de- 
notes number, it being only a man figure with red or bloody 
body and red war bonnet. 
Fia. 215. 
Fig. 216, 1831-32.—Le Beau, a white man, killed 
another named Kermel. Le Beau was still alive at 
Little Bend, 30 miles above Fort Sully, in 1877. 
Fia. 216. 
Fig. 217, 1832~33.—Lone-Horn had his leg “killed,” as 
the interpretation gave it. The single horn is on the figure, 
and a leg is drawn up as if fractured or distorted, though 
not unlike the leg in the character for 180809, where run- 
ning is depicted. 
