CHAPTER XXXI {XV of Vol. II}

INDIANS OF THE PRAIRIES

Intermediate Tribes -- Their Wigwams and their Hunting Excursions -- Dress and Cut of their Hair -- The Pawnees -- The Osages -- Their Roguery -- Matrimonial Customs -- Accomplished Mourners -- Their Superstitions -- The Indian Figure -- The 'Pawnee Picts' -- Wild Tribes -- Census -- The Comanches -- Their Range -- Their Sobriety -- Their Chiefs, etc. -- Female Chastity -- Comanche Marriage -- Costumes -- Horsemanship -- Comanche Warfare -- Predatory Forays -- Martial Ceremonies -- Treatment of Captives -- Burial and Religious Rites, 336

GLOSSARY.

Containing such Spanish or Hispano-Mexican words as occur undefined in this work, or recur without definition after having been once translated 353

COMMERCE OF THE PRAIRIES {PART II}