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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 199
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Foreign Literature.
" On the 17 ih of September we came towards niglitfai . il to a place called storm Middle was Springs coming , but on did . The not reach driving our up camp the the ing waggons p cattle lace , till so amidst as ten to o ' form clock li them , just into as and a
thunder a corral , and the the unharnessing blackest darkness and collecting made a wild scene ; and scarcel ghtning y was this effectedbefore the most tremendous , storm broke from the north that I have
ever even witnessed the , heavy in loaded the American waggons , prairie made the . The protection power of of the every wind kind , which of garment shook thickest kindwell
through two utterl blankets y inefficient as if th they at ; I had and threw been a lined over made it woollen while of muslin I cloak was . of keep The the ing shiverin my watch g mules , were , itsel as crowded f blown as
getting them together . on Along and the thick soug with lee-side ht that the protecti of wind I me found on came as I b myself ehind stood a mixture , any in running hopes object of rai of against n that my and presented keep snow the ing , cattle and the the wind and , dark even the off
ness was so watch waggons , I without was benumbed seeing as them well ; and as wet when through I left . my Perh post aps , , for after the a two European ht in hours
me wet reader that clothes , I the may ; most but add my absurd that own , as prejudices experience a matter of prevail , as course well in , as I civilised had that to of pass life other as the s , to has ni what g convinced _peoj my > le
cannot bear without injury to their health . " Here is another incident of travel of a more amusing kind .
a distinguished blue ¦ " Amon woollen g the chief blanket Indians of the over Kiowas pre it sent and , was had He a wore a man red their cloth who ordinary wound represented like leathern a turban himself dress round with as a
silk my his the shabb head old he waistcoat y ad gentleman felt , , which however hat of , gave and equall , forge to the him y present t present the ancien quite staid , him an t was date decorum Asiatic with received , to an which appearance of old with beh pair Robert aviour a rapture . of It added black prescribed somehow that trousers an exceedin quite b came , Indian and made into gly a
wore etiquette which . Without were bno ceremony means worthless he immediatel and y inducted flung off himsel all the f withou garments y t delay he y
into turban this , Robert borrowed thoug finery ht proper . When to add he , put we , on thoug the ht old with hat doubtful in place generosity of his red ,
with the presen speechless , t of a astonishment small looking , until -glass at . last The he Indian broke of out looked into long repeated Good at his exclama image ! -
leathern his tions deli , at ght garments firs he t softly was willing , blanket and then to j bow present louder quiver and us in louder and exchange arrows , ' Bueno with red his turban , ' * whole and , equi good a pment pouch ' In ,
, , , , , embroidered " When I with signified beads to — him in short that , I his required entire no worldl embrace payment y possessions , but meant . the object things
for a present , he spread out his anus as if to some very large , and * ' He declared then that commanded I was a all ' very his people fat chief to . ' leave the camp , for being quite satisbeand his
and horse fied feeling himself without himself , he bidding did with not us see his farewell why hands , they he all rode the should way off not gazing he went , at . himself springing in the upon glass ,
a countryman At Fort Fillimore of the , Auth a military or's who stati had on enlisted near the in Mexican the United frontier States ,
handsomel army came to clothed complain and to his him well of -fed bad robust treatment . The man and was the appearance ,
circumstance y that he , had come out to shoot a turkey or a hare for an addition to his dinnermade rather a curious commentary on his
of tale food of gri and evances clothing . On made inquiry , to the M American . Frobel learned army are that so the superabun supplies
dantly liberal that travellers passing the military stations can always
Notices Of Books. 199
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 199
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1858, page 199, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051858/page/55/
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