Identifier: thrillingadventu00fros_1 (find matches)
Title: Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Frost, John, 1800-1859
Subjects: Indians of North America Indian captivities
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Bradley Lowell, L. P. Crown
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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dle of my room, on which the Indians were togive their dances, and having removed all seats fromthe room, every part of the floor was covered as dense-ly as it was possible for men and women to be groupedtogether. Into the midst of this mass the party dashedin Indian file, with shield and bow and quiver slung—with war-clubs and tomahawks in hand, as theysounded the frightful war-whoop and were endeavour-ing to reach the platform. The frightened crowd, withscreams and yells as frightful nearly as those of theIndians, gave way, and they soon had a free passageto the platform, upon which they leaped, withoutlooking for the flight of steps prepared for them, andwere at full length before the staring, gaping multi-tude. They were in a moment seated, and were pass-ing their pipe around, while I was^ by a brief lecture,introducing them, and the modes they were to illus-trate to the audience. I described the country and the tribe they be-longed to, and the objects for which they had crossed
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DANCE OF OJIEBEWAY INDIANS. 397 the Atlantic; and also expressed to the audience thehappy opportunity it was affording me of corroborat-ing the many assertions I had been heretofore makingrelative to the looks and modes of those people, manyof which I was fully aware were difl&cult of compre-hension. Having done this, I should leave the In-dians to entertain the audience with such of theirdances and other amusements as they might decideupon, and endeavour to stand by and explain eachamusement as they gave it, feeling abundantly ableto do so from a residence of eight years among thevarious tribes in America. There was a shout of applause at the close of myremarks, and the most impatient anxiety evinced onall sides to see the commencement of the curioustricks which were just ready to be introduced. Atthis moment, with a sudden yell, the men all sprungupon their feet; their weapons brandished and theirbuffalo robes thrown back, while the women and chil-dren seated themselves at the e

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