“’There are many lodges in this camp, and in each of these lodges many seats, but he has come to my lodge, and has sat down in my medicine circle.  I believe my medicine helped him too.  So now I am afraid to kill this man, for if I do, it may break my medicine.  I have finished.’

“Everyone said the chief’s talk was good.  The chief turned to the Blackfoot and said:  ’Do not be afraid; we will not kill you.  You are tired.  Take off your leggings and moccasins, and lie down in that bed.’

“The Blackfoot did as he was told, and as soon as he lay down he slept; for he was very tired.

“Next morning, when he awoke, there by his bed were new leggings for him, and warm hair moccasins, and a new soft cow’s robe; and he put these on, and his heart was glad.  Then they ate, and the chief told him about the medicine circle, and why they had not killed him.

“In the spring a party of our people went to war against the Crows and the Blackfoot went with them, and he took many horses.  He went to war often, and soon had a big band of horses.  He married two women of our tribe, and stayed with us.  Sometimes they used to ask him if he would ever go back to his people, and he would say:  ’Wait, I want to get more horses, and when I have a big band—­a great many—­I will take my lodge, and my women and children, and we will go north, and I will make peace between your tribe and the Blackfeet.’

“One summer the people were running buffalo.  They were making new lodges.  One day the men went out to hunt.  At sundown they came back, but the Blackfoot did not return.  Next day the men went out to look for him, and they searched all over the country.  Many days they hunted for the Blackfoot, but he was never seen again.  Some said he had gone back to his people.  Some said that a bear might have killed him, or he might have fallen from his horse and been killed, and some said that a war party must have killed him and taken the horse with them.  Neither man nor horse was seen again.”

Among Enemy Lodges.

It was late in the winter, when I was fifteen years old, that I made my first trip to war.  We were camped on a large river, and not far from our camp was a village of the Arapahoes.

One day I went to visit their camp, taking with me only my buffalo robe and my bow and arrows.  At the camp I found a number of young men of my tribe, and I went into the lodge where they were sitting, and sat down near the door.  Soon after I had entered a young man of my tribe proposed that our young men should gamble against the young men of the Arapahoes, and when they had agreed, we all left the lodge where we were sitting, and went off to that owned by Shaved-head.  I followed along after the others, and when I entered the lodge I found that they were making ready to gamble.  The counters were lying between the lines, ten of the sticks lying side by side, and two lying across the ten.