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      Sick a tower is one of the most aged men in the nation. He is thin, word scratched out but very erect, except in walking. His eye is eager, & searching. His face sharp & striking; long, narrow, -- and its skin like time discoloroured "parchment glued to bone. " His ears are slashed word lined out in the antique Indian style, the outer rim detached, hanging low, and drawn round in front. From one of them hung a very old large words scratched out thin circular and scratched out plate of silver, engraved and pierced words scratched out with fanciful devices. Over his thin white hairs he wore a cap of several words scratched out cat - skin, -- white, with one or two yellowish spots: the border dark tortoise-shell coloured black; and the tail drooping behind.
     His robe & tunic were white: word scratched out white: word scratched out his tunic was girdled with a beaded  several words scratched out belt, the ground work crimson & the beadlines blue & white; word scratched out and word scratched out it sustained words scratched out an  antique pipe inserted in tomahawk. He had a knife? belt with an Indian Pouch greenish yellow.
     His leggings were of dark buckskin, the gartering, blue & tipped with red; and his word scratched out moccasins were plain. His staff head was words scratched out of buck horn.