CHAPTER XII. First Intimation of my Little Mary’s Fate—Despair and Delirium—A Shower of Grasshoppers—A Feast and a Fight—An Enraged Squaw—The Chief Wounded, 120 CHAPTER XIII. Arrival of “Porcupine”—A Letter from Captain Marshall—Hopes of Rescue—Treachery of the Messenger—Egosegalonicha—The Tables Turned—Another Gleam of Hope—The Indian “White Tipi”—Disappointed—A White Man Bound and left to Starve—A Burial Incident, 129 CHAPTER XIV. Lost in the Indian Village—Black Bear’s White Wife—A small Tea Party—The White Boy-captive, Charles Sylvester—The Sun Dance—A Conciliating Letter from General Sibley—A Puzzle of Human Bones—The Indian as an Artist—I Destroy a Picture and am Punished with Fire-brands—A Sick Indian, 136 CHAPTER XV. Preparing the Chi-cha-cha, or Killikinnick—Attack on Captain Fisk’s Emigrant Train—Fourteen Whites Killed—A big Haul of Whisky—A Drunken Debauch—I write a Letter to Captain Fisk under dictation—Poisoned Indians—The Train saved by my Clerical Strategy, 147 CHAPTER XVI. Scenes on Cannon Ball Prairie—Reflections, 154 CHAPTER XVII. A Prairie on Fire—Scenes of Terror, 159 CHAPTER XVIII. Last days with the Ogalalla Sioux—Massacre of a Party returning from Idaho—A Woman’s Scalp—A Scalp Dance—Suspicious Circumstance—Arrival of Blackfeet Indians—Negotiations for my Ransom—Treachery, 164 CHAPTER XIX. Indian Customs, 175 CHAPTER XX. An Indian tradition—Arrival at the Blackfeet Village—An offer to purchase me indignantly rejected—A Yankton attempts my Capture, 191 CHAPTER XXI. Appearance of Jumping Bear—I prevail on him to carry a Letter to the Fort—A War Speech—Intended Treachery—Resume our Journey to the Fort—Singular Meeting with a White Man—“Has Richmond Fallen?”—Arrival at the Fort—I am Free! 199 CHAPTER XXII. Retrospection—A Border Trading post—Garrison Hospitality—A Visit from the Commandant of Fort Rice—Arrival of my Husband—Affecting Scene, 212 CHAPTER XXIII. Sad Fate of Little Mary, 218 CHAPTER XXIV.