Attired in the garb in which we first introduced
him to our readers, and with the same weapons reposing
at his side, the haughty savage lay at his lazy length;
his feet reaching beyond the opening of the tent, and
his head reposing on a rude pillow formed of a closely
compressed pack of skins of wild animals, over which was
spread a sort of mantle or blanket. One hand was introduced
between the pillow and his head, the other grasped the
pipe tomahawk he was smoking; and while the mechanical
play of his right foot indicated pre-occupation of thought,
his quick and meaning eye glanced frequently and alternately
upon the furthest of his companions, the prisoner without,
and the distant fort.
Within a few feet of the warrior lay, extended on a
buffalo skin, the delicate figure of a female, whose
hair, complexion, and hands, denoted her European
extraction. Her dress was entirely Indian, however;
consisting of a machecoti with leggings, mocassins, and
shirt of printed cotton studded with silver brooches,--all
of which were of a quality and texture to mark the wearer
as the wife of a chief; and her fair hair, done up in a
club behind, reposed on a neck of dazzling whiteness.
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