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Updated: August 6, 2024
Someone fresh from the Mexican War had brought a drum, another a bugle. Without instructions, these began to sound their summons and continued all day long, at such times as the performers could spare from drink. The Indians of the friendly tribes Otos, Kaws, Osages come in to trade, looked on in wonder at the revelings of the whites.
Him they knew not; howbeit some one looking reverently on him would speak on this wise: 'Not Apollo surely is this, nor yet Aphrodite's lord of the brazen car; yea and in glistening Naxos died ere now, they say, the children of Iphimedeia, Otos and thou, bold king Ephialtes: moreover Tityos was the quarry of Artemis' swift arrow sped from her invincible quiver, warning men to touch only the loves within their power.
They stayed ten days, to rest; then the Otos gave them each a pony, and in two more weeks they were home. It had been a cold, hungry journey, of five hundred miles, and their relatives and friends were glad to see them again. But the United States inspector was waiting for them. He was angry. He said that the Great Father had ordered the Poncas to change homes.
We took the ears of corn that had dried in the fields; we ate it raw. The soles of our moccasins wore out. We were barefoot in the snow. We were nearly dead when we reached the Oto reservation. It had been fifty days." Their feet made bloody marks on the Oto reservation. The Otos and the Oto agent treated them kindly.
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