After they have all been tortured in the lodge in the above manner, they are led out of it with the weights, buffalo-skulls, &c. hanging to their flesh. Around the "Big Canoe" is a circle of young men formed, who hold a wreath of willow-boughs between them, and run round with all possible violence, yelling as loud as they can. The young fellows who have been tortured are then led forward, and each one has two athletic and fresh young men (their bodies singularly painted), who step up to him, one on each side, and take him by a leathern strap, tied round the wrist, and run round, outside of the other circle, with all possible speed, forcing him forward till he faints, and then drag him with his face in the dirt until the weights are all disengaged from him, by tearing the flesh out, when they drop him, and he lies (to all appearance a _corpse_) until the Great Spirit gives him strength to rise and walk home to his lodge. In this scene also the _medicine-man_ leans against the "Big Canoe" and cries, and all the nation are spectators. Many pages would be required to give to the world a just description of these strange scenes; and they require to be described minutely in all their parts in order to be fully appreciated and understood. (A full account of these in my _Notes and Letters_.) * * * * * NINE OJIBBEWAYS, WHO VISITED LONDON IN 1845. 508. _Ah-quee-we-zaints_, the Boy Chief; a venerable man of 72 years. 509. _Pat-au-a-quot-a-wee-be_, the Driving-Cloud; a war-chief. 510. _Wee-nish-ka-wee-be_, the Flying Gull; a medicine-man. 511. _Sah-mah_, Tobacco. 512. _Gish-ee-gosh-e-gee_, the Moonlight Night. 513. _Not-een-a-akm_, the Strong Wind. 514. _Wos-see-ab-e-neuh-qua_; a woman. 515. _Nib-nab-ee-qua_; a young girl. 516. _Ne-bet-neuh-quat_; a woman. FOURTEEN IOWAYS, WHO VISITED LONDON AND PARIS IN 1845 AND 1846. 517. _Mew-hew-she-kaw_, the White Cloud; first Chief of the nation. 518. _Neu-mon-ya_, the Walking Rain; War-chief. 519. _Se-non-ti-yah_, the Blistered Feet; a medicine-man. 520. _Wash-ka-mon-ya_, the Fast Dancer; a warrior. 521. _Shon-ta-yi-ga_, the Little Wolf; a famous warrior. 522. _No-ho-mun-ya_, One who gives no Attention. 523. _Wa-ton-ye_, the Foremost Man. 524. _Wa-ta-wee-buck-a-na_, the Commanding General. WOMEN. 525. _Ru-ton-ye-wee-ma_, the Strutting Pigeon; wife of White Cloud. 526. _Ru-ton-wee-me_, Pigeon on the Wing. 527. _O-kee-wee-me_, Female Bear that walks on the Back of another. 528. _Koon-za-ya-me_, Female War Eagle. 529. _Ta-pa-ta~me_, Wisdom; girl. 530. _Corsair_; a pappoose. TWELVE OJIBBEWAYS, WHO VISITED LONDON AND PARIS IN 1845 AND 1846.