456. Sham Scalp Dance, by the Mandan Boys--danced in the village when they come in, in honour of a sham victory. 457. War Dance of the Sioux. Each warrior, in turn, jumps through the fire, and then advances shouting and boasting, and taking his oath, as he "strikes the _reddened post_." 458. Foot War Party in Council, Mandan. Stopping to rest and take a smoke; chief with a war-eagle head-dress on; their shields and weapons lying on the ground behind them. 459. Camanchee War Party--the Chief discovering the enemy and urging on his men, at sunrise. 460. Religious Ceremony; a Sioux, with splints through his flesh, and his body hanging to a pole, with his medicine-bag in his hand, looks at the sun from its rising to its setting. #/ A voluntary cruel self-torture, which entitles him to great respect for the remainder of his life, as a _medicine_ or _mystery_ man. 461. Dragoons on the March, and a band of Buffalo breaking through their ranks, in Texas, 1835. 462. Prairie Dog Village. Myriads of these curious little animals sometimes are found in one village, which will extend several miles. The animals are about twice the size of a rat, and not unlike it in appearance and many of their habits. They dig holes in the ground, and the dirt which is thrown up makes a little mound, on which they sit and bark when danger approaches. They feed upon the grass, which is their only food. 463. "Smoking Horses," a curious custom of the Sacs and Foxes. Foxes, going to war, come to the Sacs, to beg for horses; they sit in a circle and smoke, and the young men ride around them, and cut their shoulders with their whips until the blood runs, then dismount and present a horse. 464. Mandans attacking a party of Riccarees, whom they had driven into a ravine, near the Mandan village, where they killed the whole number. 465. Chippeways making the portage around the Falls of St. Anthony, with two hundred bark canoes, in 1835. 466. Camanchees moving, and Dog Fight--dogs as well as horses drag the lodge-poles with packs upon them. These fights generally begin with the dogs, and end in desperate battle; amongst the squaws, to the great amusement of the men. 467. White Wolves attacking a Buffalo Bull. 468. Ditto, ditto--a parley. 469. _My horse "Charley" and I_, at sunrise, near the Neosho, on an extensive prairie, encamping on the grass; my saddle for a pillow, two buffalo-skins for my bed, my gun in my arms; a coffee-pot and tin cup, a fire made of buffalo-dung, and Charley (a Camanchee clay-bank mustang) picketed near me. With him alone I crossed the prairie from Fort Gibson, on the Arkansas, to St. Louis, 550 miles.