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Title: Sport and adventures among the North-American Indians
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Messiter, Charles Alston Whymper, Charles, 1853-
Subjects: Hunting Indians of North America
Publisher: London, R.H. Porter
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ognize this part of the stream, andknew that I was not far from where I had left my saddle andpack, I rode down till I reached it, when what should I seestanding within a hundred yards of where I had slept, bat thehorse I had lost, with the rope still round his neck, and. aportion of the bush to which I had tied him at the end of it.He had evidently been unable to find his way back to theranche, so he had returned to where he had been tied, and hadremained about there for the last seven days. At first Ithought that the Indians must have caught him, and that theywere somewhere near; but when I saw that he was loose, Iknew that this could not be the case. He was as glad to seeme as I was him, and galloped round the pony several times,very nearly throwing us down with his rope. I camped on theold spot, and in the morning started at a good pace, ridingJen0 and putting my small pack on the pony, Jeff beingso much more comfortable to ride, as my feet almost touchedthe ground when on Libb. p
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A HORRIBLE SIGHT. 151 I had my dinner in the deep bed of a stream, feeding thehorses with corn; and it was lucky that I did so, for on goingup to look round before starting, I saw a band of Indians,evidently running buffalo, about two miles ahead of me. Ilay down and watched them for about two hours, by whichtime they had all crossed a high divide on my left, when Istarted again, taking care to reconnoitre before crossing anyhigh ground, tying the pony and Jeff together while I didso, when they would remain patiently till I returned. I saw nothing more of the Indians, and struck the RepublicanRiver about six oclock in the evening, and was surprised atsef3ing a waggon on the bank among some bushes. On reach-ing it I found it had been plundered, while round it lay thebodies of five men and four horses, all of the former beingscalped, and one who lay under the hind end of the waggonhad had the top of his head chopped off down to the eyes.There were no signs as to who they were, but a sma

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