Fig. 195, 1812-’13.--Wild horses were first run and caught by the Dakotas. The device is a lasso. The date is of value, as showing when the herds of prairie horses, descended from those animals introduced by the Spaniards in Mexico, or those deposited by them on the shores of Texas and at other points, had multiplied so as to extend into the far northern regions. The Dakotas undoubtedly learned the use of the horse and perhaps also that of the lasso from southern tribes, with whom they were in contact; and it is noteworthy that notwithstanding the tenacity with which they generally adhere to ancient customs, in only two generations since they became familiar with the horse they had been so revolutionized in their habits as to be utterly helpless, both in war and the chase, when deprived of that animal. [Illustration: FIG. 196.] Fig. 196, 1813-’14.--The whooping-cough was very prevalent and fatal. The sign is suggestive of a blast of air coughed out by the man-figure. [Illustration: FIG. 197.] [Illustration: FIG. 198.] The interruption in the cough peculiar to the disease is more clearly delineated in the Winter Count of The-Flame for the same year, Fig. 197, and still better in The-Swan’s Winter Count, Fig. 198. [Illustration: FIG. 199.] Fig. 199, 1814-’15.--A Dakota killed an Arapaho in his lodge. The device represents a tomahawk or battle-ax, the red being blood from the cleft skull. [Illustration: FIG. 200.] Fig. 200, 1815-’16.--The Sans Arcs made the first attempt at a dirt lodge. This was at Peoria Bottom, Dakota. Crow-Feather was their chief, which fact, in the absence of the other charts, seemed to explain the fairly drawn feather of that bird protruding from the lodge top, but the figure must now be admitted to be a badly drawn bow, in allusion to the tribe Sans Arc, without, however, any sign of negation. As the interpreter explained the figure to be a crow feather and as Crow-Feather actually was the chief, Lone-Dog’s chart with its interpretation may be independently correct. [Illustration: FIG. 201.] Fig. 201, 1816-’17.--“Buffalo belly was plenty.” The device rudely portrays a side of buffalo. [Illustration: FIG. 202.] Fig. 202, 1817-’18.--La Framboise, a Canadian, built a trading store with dry timber. The dryness is shown by the dead tree. La Framboise was an old trader among the Dakota, who once established himself in the Minnesota valley. His name is mentioned by various travelers. [Illustration: FIG. 203.]