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with, enougli woiinds upon them to have slain a company, if 

 evenly distributed. The bugler was stripped naked, and 

 five arrows driven through him, while his skull was literally 

 smashed to atoms. Another soldier was shot with four 

 bullets and three arrows, his scalp was torn off, and his 

 brains knocked out. A third was riddled with balls and 

 arrows; but they did not succeed in getting his scalp, 

 although, like the other two, he was stripped naked. James 

 Douglas, a Scotchman, was shot tlu'ough the body with 

 arrows, and his left arm was hacked to pieces. He was a 

 brave fellow, and breathed out his life in the arms of his 

 comrades. Another man, named Welsh, was killed, but all 

 subsequent search failed to discover his remains. Sergeant 

 "Wylyams lay dead beside his horse; and as the fearful 

 picture first met my gaze, I was horror-stricken. Horse and 

 rider were stripped bare of trapping and clothes, while 

 around them the trampled, blood-stained ground showed the 

 desperation ,of the struggle. 



I shall minutely describe this horrid sight, not for the sake 

 of creating a sensation, but becadfee it is characteristic of a 

 mode of warfare soon — thank God ! — to be abolished ; and 

 because the mutilations have, as we shall presently see, most 

 of them some meaning, apart from brutality and a desire to 

 inspire fear. 



A portion of the sergeant's scalp lay near him, but the 

 greater part was gone ; through his head a rifle-ball had 

 passed, and a blow from the tomahawk had laid his bram 

 open above his left eye ; the nose was slit up, and his thi'oat 

 was cut from ear to ear; seven arrows were standing m 

 different parts of his naked body ; the breast was laid open 



so as to expose the heart ; and the arm, that had doubtless 

 done its work against the red-skins, was hacked to the bone ; 



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