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condition, being destitute of robes, leggings, and mocka- 

 sins, with nothing to cover their bodies at night, or to pro- 

 tect thtm from the influence of the sun during the day. The 

 squaws, however, had managod to retain t\ieir clothing, and 

 one of the warriors had preserved an article of dress, resem- 

 bling a coat, half red and half blue, ornamented with beads 

 on the sleeves and shoulders. The usual decoration of beads 

 about the neck, and in the hair, and ears, were preserved, 

 and one warrior only was painted with vermillion. The hair 

 of several was matted into flat braids with red clay, and one 

 individual had seven or eight pieces of the pearl shell, so 

 highly valued by these Indians, suspended from his ears. In 

 every particular of form and feature, they were undistin- 

 guishable from the Kiawas, Kaskaias, and Arrapahoes. Much 

 attention was devoted to the wounded, who were each ac- 

 commodated with a horse, of which animals eight had been 

 fortunately retained. These objects of sympathy, v.ere assist- 

 ed in alighting from their horses with great tenderness, par- 

 ticularly one of them, who was shot through the body. Ano- 

 ther of them, who was one of the two mounted spies that 

 first approached us, had lost his brother in the late battle, 

 and to prove the sincerity of his grief for his loss, he had 

 cut more than one hundred parallel transverse lines on his 

 arms and thighs, of the length of from three to four inches, 

 deep enough to draw blood, and so close to each other, that 

 the width of the finger could not be interposed between any 

 two of them. 



They were armed with the bow and arrow, lance and 

 shield, and thirteen guns, but by far the greatest number 

 carried lances. 



They begged stoutly for various articles, particularly cloth- 

 ing, and it was found necessary to separate from them a few 



small part) of Otoes that he led. And the narration of his adventures sa- 

 tistactorilj' proved, that it was he and his party, that reduced the letaa war 

 part) to the condition, in which they presented themselves to us, 



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