All the people are hungry, yet have not a morsel to eat except a bitter kind of potato, that gives them the dry-gripes, and fills their whole body with loathsome ulcers, that stink and are insupportably painful. Here all the women are old and ugly, having claws like a panther, with which they fly upon the men that slight their passion. For it seems these haggard old furies are intolerably fond, and expect a vast amount of cherishing. They talk much, and exceedingly shrill, giving exquisite pain to the drum of the ear, which in that place of torment is so tender, that every sharp note wounds it to the quick. At the end of this path sits a dreadful old woman on a monstrous toadstool, whose head is cover’d with rattlesnakes instead of tresses, with glaring white eyes, that strike a terror unspeakable into all that behold her. This hag pronounces sentence of woe upon all the miserable wretches that hold up their hands at her tribunal. After this they are deliver’d over to huge turkey-buzzards like harpys, that fly away with them to the place above mentioned. Here, after they have been tormented a certain number of years, according to their several degrees of guilt, they are again driven back into this world, to try if they will mend their manners, and merit a place next time in the regions of bliss.” FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 217: Lewis and Clarke’s Exped., ed., Allen, vol. I, p. 174.] [Footnote 218: U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv., Hayden, Miscell. Publ., No. 7, 1877: Ethnog. and Philol. of Hidatsa Indians, p. 48.] [Footnote 219: Maximilian, Travels * * * in North America, p. 359.] [Footnote 220: Ibid, p. 176.] [Footnote 221: Ibid, pp. 369, 374, 386, 388, 400.] [Footnote 222: Ibid, p. 174.] [Footnote 223: Ibid, p. 173.] [Footnote 224: Ibid, pp. 373, 377. O-kee-pa: A Religious Ceremony * * * by George Catlin, Phil., 1867, 25 pp. Smithson. Rept., 1885, pt. 2, pp. 353-368.] [Footnote 225: U.S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv., Hayden, Miscell. Publ., No. 7, 1877: Ethnog. and Philol. of Hidatsa Indians, pp. 45, 46.] [Footnote 226: James’s account of Long’s Expedition to Rocky Mountains, vol. I, pp. 276-278.] [Footnote 227: Travels * * * in North America, pp. 400, 401.] [Footnote 228: Yet Maximilian says, “We ourselves saw one suspended, etc.”] [Footnote 229: Travels * * * in North America, pp. 419-422.] [Footnote 230: Ibid, pp. 426-428.] [Footnote 231: Ibid, vol. I, pp. 189, 190.] [Footnote 232: Ibid, p. 175.] [Footnote 233: O-kee-hee-dee of Catlin.] [Footnote 234: Maximilian, Travels * * * in North America, pp. 359, 360.] [Footnote 235: Maximilian, Travels * * * in North America, pp. 378-380.] [Footnote 236: Maximilian, Travels * * * in North America, p. 369.] [Footnote 237: Ibid., pp. 380, 381.] [Footnote 238: Ibid., p. 361.] [Footnote 239: Lewis and Clarke, Exped., ed. Allen, Vol. I, p. 205.]