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lent horse men. Most of their horses are bred 

 by themselves, and by handling them when very 

 young they are remarkably docile and gentle. 

 Sometimes wild horses are caught and tamed, 

 which are every where amongst them in large 

 droves. They hunt down the buffaloe on horse 

 back, and kill them either with the bow, or a sharp 

 wooden spear, which they carry in their hands. 

 They are said, when they kill a buffaloe, to catch 

 and drink the blood, while it is warm; they 

 likewise eat the liver raw, before it is cold, and. 

 use the gall for sauce* They are, for savages, 

 uncommonly neat and clean in their persons and 

 dress. The women wear a long, loose robe, which 

 reaches from the chin to the ground, with a fancy 

 sash or girdle around the waist, all made of neatly 

 dressed leather, on which they paint figures of 

 different colours and significations. The dress 

 of the men is close leather pantaloons, and a 

 hunting frock, made of leather. They cultivate 

 no vegetables, but they season their food with a 

 small cayenne pepper, which grows spontaneously 

 in the country, and some wild herbs. They also 

 make use of wild fruits, particularly a bean, which 

 grows in great plenty on a small tree, resembling 

 a willow, called masketo. With these articles 

 the women will cook their buffaloe beef in a man- 

 ner highly grateful to the taste. They occupy 

 alternately a vast extent of country from the Trin- 

 ity, Braces, the head of Red river, and Arkan- 

 sas, to the Missouri, River Grand, about Saint a 

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