CLEANLINESS—AUTUMNAL GAMES. 193 
dancing which they can endure for ten or fifteen days together, day and 
night, is astonishing, when we remember that the manner of dance practiced 
by the men is terribly hard work; but like all savages they can stand the 
fatigue of amusements much better than they can the steady, hard grub- 
bing which gets bread and meat. 
It is a curious fact that there is no word for “lazy” in their language, 
and they have borrowed a word from the Spanish. Some qualities are 
known by themselves, and some only by their opposites; hence, as the 
Indian knew nothing of industry, he also knew nothing of laziness. 
Besides their sweat-house heats and their regular cold-water baths in 
the morning, they have another habit which is on the side of cleanliness ; 
they sleep stark naked, even when they have learned to wear civilized gar- 
ments. I was first made aware of this fact by an amusing incident. Near 
the farmer’s house there was a campoody, and in the night the swine became 
frightened and ran through the wigwams, and when we looked out we saw 
them come shooting out from the opposite door-hole, first an Indian on all- 
fours, then a pig, one as naked as the other. I afterward chanced to ob- 
serve this fact several times in the central and southern parts of the State. 
What little aboriginal clothing they wore was of a material not comfortable 
to lie in; besides which, as they never washed it, it was a relief to lay it 
off at night, and doubtless conducive to health, as they themselves argue. 
Man and wife do not sleep apart, as in some Algonkin tribes, but lie down 
snugly together in a kind of nest, and draw a hare-skin rug over them. 
The chieftainship is hereditary unless the heir is incompetent, though its 
functions are very nebulous, and their social system nowadays is patri- 
archal. But as on Russian River the remnant of them is so shrunken and 
narrowed down that it saddens their hearts, and they dwell all in one wig- 
wam together for the comforting of their souls, though some who thus 
abide in common are nowise related. 
Eyery year brings around the great autumnal games, which continue a 
matter of two weeks. Besides the spear dance, tennis, gambling, and the 
like, they amuse themselves with divers other entertainments. One of them 
is the devil dance, which is gotten up to terrify the women and children, 
like the haberfeldtreiben of the Bavarian peasants. In the midst of the 
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