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29 the shore in his canoe, his brother leveled his rifle, little crow saw it & dodged, the ball, well aimed, passed thro' both fore-arms as he grasped his paddle, & he bears the marks to this day - his brother was shortly after killed by the tribe for this offence. Early in the morning speechs from the chief & "medicine bottle" a very loquacious old Indian, & a principal man, announced that the hunters would depart in search of deer that day. Soon, the young men where seen emerging from their lodges catching their horses, saddling them & providing the various necessaries for a residence of some days in the woods. The costume was different from any I had seen as they wended their way through the dell leading to? the bluffs, they seemed like knights off old, crrusaders with long white cloaks