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that the men might warm themselves. Spotted-Horse-Chief and the 
men then started on their journey south, all of the men going on the 
west side of Spotted-Horse-Chief. One day scouts came back and said: 
‘““Enemy’s camp in sight; squat down!’”” The men obeyed. One man 
was sent to notify Spotted-Horse-Chief. He overtook him and waved a 
blanket at him. Spotted-Horse-Chief came to the company. He sat on 
the south side. He untied his bundle. He took the pipe, filled it with 
native tobacco, and took out the sun-glass. The men all looked at him. 
It was cloudy, but the sun came out as if to say: ‘‘I will come out and 
light your pipe.”’ The sun came out and the smoke came out through 
the stem. The sun disappeared. Spotted-Horse-Chief then sang a vic- 
tory song; he then stood up and spoke to his warriors: ‘‘My men, the 
gods in the heavens have looked upon us with favor; even the sun has 
blown his hot breath upon the bowl of my pipe; the winds helped me to 
draw my breath; the smoke passed through the stem without a hole. 
Think of the many warriors who have had success upon these prairies. 
The gods helped them and they will help us and guide us to success; we 
will get many ponies. Our names must be changed; you said the enemy 
_ saw us, but the gods will blind them; they will not see us. Each one of 
you now take your rawhide lariat rope, stretch it out, so that the gods 
will know that we have accepted what they have put in our way.” 
Every man stretched his lariat rope in front of him on the ground. In the 
afternoon Spotted-Horse-Chief sent scouts to the village of the enemy. 
The scouts came back and reported that there was no stir in camp and 
that the enemy were driving their herds of ponies away from camp. 
After night Spotted-Horse-Chief selected men to go and capture ponies 
for him. These men went to the camp, found no ponies; then they went 
east of the village and found many ponies along a stream of water. 
These men drove all the ponies to where Spotted-Horse-Chief was and 
gave them all to him. Spotted-Horse-Chief commanded the warriors 
each to lariat a pony and drive them as fast as they could. They trav- 
eled four days and four nights without stopping to rest. When they did 
stop the men fainted and were sore, for they rode without saddles. Many 
ponies were captured and all the young men received new names and 
ponies. 
After that whenever Spotted-Horse-Chief sat down to organize a war 
party many young men joined him. Spotted-Horse Chief in a battle 
with the Sioux was wounded and, although the men of the Buffalo Society 
doctored him, he died. The bundle, pipe, sun-glass, and skin were left 
with an old woman. This woman died at Pawnee Agency, Oklahoma, in 
1879, and all these things were buried with her. 
