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4 the characteristic of the American a boat-hand from the steamer is a model for Hercules - a Sioux warrior for Mercury or Mars. Having received an invitation from Dr Williamson, a missionary to the Sioux, to whom I had a letter, to visit him at his residence at the village of Kaposia or Little Crow's village [as it is generally called, that being the cognomen of the chief, whose name is, in Dacotah, "Chatah-koowamanni" or Sparrow h awk walks shooting, which by the French traders was corruptly translated "Petite corbeaux," or Little Crow], I was placed under the charge of an Indian who conducted me to his canoe a "dug-out" where his two wives were in attendance to paddle us to their residence