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Show Ex. Doc. No. 41. 423 manent habitations, and of living like the whites, by tilling the ground and raising cattle. The next morning, Sunday, Augu. t 30, was a day of rest. The constant repairing of the wagons that were daily coming in from Fort Leavenworth, kept the pcopl(• here very husy. The rinO' of the blacksmith's hammer, an<l the noise from th • wagon r's :hop were incessant, so we all hailcu the tla) with gladness; those who labored, as a day of rcpo e, those who did not labor, as a day of quiet. During the day Ah-mah-nah-co paid me a visit, bringing a pre-sent of a pair of moccasins, ornamented with porcupine quills, worked into a figure resembling a squaw; this ornament seems pe· culiar to the Cheyennes. " N ah-mou ·t," or " Big left hand," also came to . ee me; he is one of the largest Indians of the tribe, measuring 6 feet 2~ inches in height, and i. very stout and broad shouldered. He bas grown so large that he ha ' been obliged to give up hunting, of which he was fond in his more youthful days, for few Indian horses could sustain his weight through a buffalo chase. l~e is extremly ingenious, and handles his knife with great skill, and is considered the best arrow-maker in the village. The young men, when going to hunt or to war, call on the skillful" Nah-moust" to obtain their (\rrows, and his lodge receives, when they return sue· cessful, a fair partition of the fruit~ of the chase, or the spoils of. the Indian foray. Jlugust 31.-Whi!e walking arountl and endeavoring to recruit my strength by exercise, I was struck with the countenance of a strange Indian. Upon inquiry I learned that h was called" Miah- tose," and the whites had given him the sobriquet of "sl_iro-fa~e." Not long ago he made a visit to St. Louis, Missouri. It 1s cunous to hear with what close crutiny he regarded every thing that chanced to meet his eye. Being a man of great influence, an<~ the o!ten cho~<·n partizan of war partie , his companions do not fatl to giVe credtt to his narrations, which to them are truly marvcllou~. Th weight of his character or more probably the fear of hts anger, as he i · a great warrior', forbi(ls their dar.in.~ to utter a doubt. He ecms to have been best pleased with the rHllng atrd the horses that he saw one evening at a circus. lJ e recolleels perfectly every horse. that appeared, and gi,·cs an account of th~ colors, marks, and tr~ppmgs of caeh one of them, with extraordtnary exactness a!'ld mmutcncss of detail. To . ec the whiles ride so well, was to htm almost incomprehensible, and was the only superiority t~~t. he ~ould admit that the civili7.l'd man ha!l derived from hts ctvthzatlon, when compared with his own rude manners of life. He wondered mueh, too, to sec so many people living in one to~n, so far from any hunting grounds. Wishing one day to ascrrt.atn exactly t~e number of inhabitants, he procured a long square ~tick, an_d set htms lf down on the pavement to note the passers by, cuttwg a notch in his stick for each one; in a little while his stick. had n~ place left for another notch anti he commcnc('d countwg~ an counted, and counted but a~ the busy stream of the roult_Itu.dc fi • ' b 1· 1 t · up h1s lD- owed on undiminished, tlu: Indian was o 1gco o gtvc |