CHAPTER XV. 
INDIANS OF THE PRAIRIES. 
Petenwetinsy Tribes—Thei ir Wigwams and their pescptggh a 
cursions—Dress and Cut of their cect The Pawn 
ager Their Roguery — Matrimonial Customs fe Pirin 
plished Merivecte—Thei r Saneeieeich’ ch e Indian Figure— 
e ‘Pawnee Picts’—Wild Tribes—Census—The Coman- 
heat Thete Range—Their gon —Their Chiefs, ete.— 
Female Chastity—Comanche Marriage—Cost ames—Horse- 
manship—Comanche Warfare—Predatory Forays—Martial 
Ceremonies—Treatment of Cnptives-Dariad and Religious 
ites. 
Tue tribes inhabiting near the borders of 
the frontier Indians differ from those that 
range the far-western prairies in several traits 
of general character. The former have their 
fixed villages, and, for the most part, combine 
the pursuits of agriculture and the chase. 
They form, indeed, a sort of intermediate 
class between the frontier and the wild tribes, 
resembling the one or the other in all import- 
ant particulars. I will merely notice in this 
place a few of the characteristics by which 
the more 2 conspicuous of these tribes are dis- 
“Their ailinge wigwams differ from the 
lodges of the wilder tribes, in their being 
