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whole forming a wretched picture of misery and poverty, 
mixed with considerable ingenuity and contrivance. 
Naroni rode in in grand costume. He wore an old blue 
mnilitary coat, with tarnished epaulettes, and covered with bul- 
let buttons, a wampum necklace, almost equal to a breast- 
plate, numerous ear-rings, finger-rings, and a large ring in his 
nose, completely encircling his mouth, and bright red leggins. 
But his crowning glory was his head-dress. From the crown 
of his head started out four long eagle’s feathers, two on each 
side. To the centre was attached his buffalo hair plait, stud- 
ded, at intervals of an inch or two, with enormous silver 
medallions, of an oval shape, and at least four inches in largest 
diameter. This plait swept the ground, and he seemed to set 
great store by it, as nothing would induce him to part with 
one of the ornaments. A rifle and bow, quiver and arrows, 
completed his costume and equipments; but being slender in 
figure and short in stature, his appearance was not at all 
imposing. 
Straightfellow was very miserably clad, dirty and ragged, 
with a very forbidding countenance, indicative of cunning and 
cruelty. | 
‘The women were ugly, crooked-legged, stoop-shouldered, 
_ squalid and dirty, with haggard and prematurely old counte- 
nances, their hair cropped close to their heads; and with scarce 
a rag to cover their nakedness. 
They led, or drove off, the pack-horses and mules into the 
valley, and soon all was life and bustle—some entting down 
