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Nothing remained but the bare walls of bark, from which everything in the shape of furniture had been stripped by the owners and carried with them to their wintering-grounds, to be brought back in the spring, when they returned to make their corn-fields and occupy their summer cabins. Our disappointment may be better imagined than described.
Kinzie also recalled to Captain Heald how that, having left home for Detroit, the preceding autumn, on receiving, when he had proceeded as far as De Charme's, the intelligence of the battle of Tippecanoe, he had immediately returned to Chicago, that he might dispatch orders to his traders to furnish no ammunition to the Indians; in consequence of which all they had on hand was secreted, and such of the traders as had not already started for their wintering-grounds, took neither powder nor shot with them.
So they watched and talked, and fondled each other, the fierce Cheyenne boy and Minataree girl for she proved to be of that tribe and they were married by the ancient rites of the ceremony of the Fastest Horse. Shortly the tribe moved away to its wintering-grounds, the young couple following after.
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