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appetite, even if this, as in this instance, should cost them the 
very means by which they sustain life. As I would not give 
them the whiskey, they mounted and rode off looking very 
glum and disappointed. 
Conner told me that it was but a short time since the Ca- 
manches would drink ‘whiskey, always refusing it and saying 
that it made fools of them and they did not like it, but a 
colony of Germans settled upon the upper waters of the 
Canadian, and from frequently visiting them the appetite has 
been acquired by occasional indulgences, and now is quite 
prevalent among them, 
He related a strange tale connected with this German 
settlement, which although savoring so much of the marvel- 
lous, I am obliged to believe, from his earnest asseverations 
of its truth, and’ my own observations upon the character 
of the wild Indians. 
Shortly after the German emigration, a wild Camanche 
who had never seen them, met one in the prairie. The Ger- 
man wore his full beard, which with his hair was long and 
shaggy. Surprised at this unusual sight, the Indian shot him 
and skinned his whole head, the skin having been afterwards 
found in his possession, preserved and shown as a specimen 
of an unfound race of men. 
Notwithstanding this bloody stretch of curiosity, Conner 
said that the Germans and Indians lived on terms of great 
amity, the former treating them with great hospitality when- 
ever they visited | ttlement, and a very straight road to 
