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Fig. 38. A Blackfool War Record. Beginning at the top, we have 

 Bear-chief (a) on foot surprised by Assiniboin Indians but he escaped; 

 (b) Double-runner cut loose four horses; (c) Double-runner captures 

 a Gros Ventre boy; (d) Double-runner and a companion encounter 

 and kill two Gros Ventre, he taking a lance from one: (e) even while 

 a boy Double-runner picked ap a war-bonnet dropped by a fleeing 

 Gros Ventre which in the system counts as a deed; (f) as a man he has 

 two adventures with Grow Indians, taking a gun from one; (g) he, as 

 leader, met five Flathead in a pit and killed them; (hj a Cree took 

 shelter in some cherry brush in a hole, but Big-nose went in for him; 

 (i) not completely shown, but representing a Cree Indian killed while 

 running off Piegan horses; (j) Double-runner, carrying a medicine-pipe, 

 took a bow from a < rros Ventre and then killed him; k Double-runner 

 took a shield and a horse from a ('row tipi, a dog barked and he was 

 hotly pursued: (m) he killed two Gros Ventre and took two guns; 

 (n) he captured a Gros Ventre woman and a boy; (o) he took four 

 mules. 



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