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Lea diagrammea suivants illustrant la methoda. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 >»aocon tBoiuTioN tbt omit (ANSI ond BO TEST CH/WT No. J) ffi^R^I^ ^ dEEUEDJvHGE In, IMJ Eott Moin StrMt TWO WILDERNESS ^_0 YAGERS MY HOST THE ENEMY ■Y FRANKUN WELLES CALKINS "Tht book If fttU of nup ind go, ind U iplrittdlr lUiwtratW. * * * The luthor hii cvldmtljr writtm of territory * * * Ktna Cboroaihly f«inlU*r, and tlw limpU, direct ityle of the namtiv* W decidedly ple*iiii|. The edventuret ire well worth telling." ■—Nnotrk Evnimg Airwi. ** &ight and vigorou* iketchei of life end edrentnre on the border line of the Wcit. * * * The Morie* are ell &r beyond the •Tcrtgc abort ta!e In cttnatmction and itrcn|th." '—Ctintr-ytunsI, ■*Thi author bat ^ren lu twenty-two atorict, every one brim liill of excitement, adventure, loma pathetic and Mveral humor- OM. * * * Mr. Calkina baa ^nerved the true apirit of adventure and hia tnnapUnttd to the publication the real itmoqihere of the rontier. He haa not depended on fiction, but hai been an eye- witneai to many of the inddenta narrated in the atoriea.** — C4ic«f « yvtrntt, *' It would be difficult to imagine a more Intereiting and unique collection of tala of tht American frontier. * * * It ii n^rcahing to pick up a book that aecmi limited by Iti coven rather than expanded to fit them. The itcriea are all short, but aome of them contain aa much action and more real atmoaphere than tboae other author! have ei^nded to make whole boolu." — CJticoft TribMtu. " Inddenta of actual adventun: are even more Interesting than the inventions of fiction, and the writer haa told the itoriet with I vigor, directneu and picturoqueness that haa preserved the atmosphere of the fronder," — Watekword, t2mo, CtaiK MosirMied, ft JO fukthtud fy FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY CHICAGO NEW YORK TOROHTO TWO WILDERNESS VOYAGERS A TRUE TALE OF INDIAN LIFE BY FRANKLIN WELLES CALKINS LONDON, EDINBURGH M C M 1 1 fc3505 /}3?r T^<^ V /^o;^ COPYRIGHT, 190a, BY FLIHINO H. RITXLL COMPANY Aaiut TO MY "LITTLE SISTER" OF THE DAKOTAS CONTENTS I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. XV. XVI. XVII. XVIII, XIX. XX. XXI. XXII. XXIII. A Spring Awakbninq The Sioux Slaves . At the Sugar Camp Into the Unknown Country The Danger of Delays As THE Rabbits Hide . Into the Tauarack Swamp The Eagles Provide The Spirit Woods Etapa Counts a Coup . They Dance to Grandfather Inyan Flight .... The Little Nurse Going to the Enemy In Black Otter's Camp In the Cougar's Lair . The Canoe of the WaJIcuh At the Big River The Pony Stealers The Grief of Fire Cloud and Crane Cry .... A Strange Buffalo A Warrior's Death The Big Yellow River 7 9 19 26 41 48 61 70 79 90 99 108 "5 131 '47 •63 172 182 192 197 209 220 228 241 / CONTENTS XXIV. XXV. XXVI. XXVII. XXVIII. XXIX. XXX. XXXI. XXXII. _, rAOc The Boat Which Was Not Straight Tongue's j^ A Long Trail jjg The Valley op Desolation . . .067 "SciLlI SCILI!" 37J The Buffalo Ghost Women . . aga The Buffaloes — A Voyage by Bull Boat 303 A Parade Fight . . .319 The Voyagers Arrive .... 330 The Warrior Father's Appeal . . 353 NOTE If the reader will kindly take note of the few helps offered below, the Dakota words used in this story may be pronounced with a degree of confidence. No vowels are silent. a = a as in father, e-a as in mate, i = e as in me, o-o as in wrote, u = u as in rule, c has the sound of ch, as in march, h and g are gutturals, i is sh, j = zh and n is nasal. All other consonants are sounded practically as in English. Zintkala, for instance, is pronounced Zent kah' la, and p-oa, A tah' pa. The pronunciation of Ojibwa words is indicated in thfe spelling. F. W. C. TWO WILDERNESS VOYAGERS CHAPTER I A SPRING AWAKENING The crows had gathered at their rookeries among the tall pines of a bluff which over- topped an Ojibwa village. Snow had melted off the bark roofs of the wigwams and in their front— if they maybe said to have had a front- lay a far stretch of blue-green ice shimmering under the April sun. To and fro above this ice- field the solemn harbingers of spring flapped their black wings. They scanned its barren space in vain search for open water and the float of winter killed fish. The occasional remon- strant Aal-aal-aal! of one of these winging spec- ters sounded a lean and melancholy note of hunger. Now and then, too, within their range of vision, a wolf, bare of rib and thin to the semblance of a shadow, loped, a flitting wraith across an arm of the lake. Save for the scream of a scolding jay, the chirrup of a surviving bunting, or the chatter of a red squirrel, the spaces of the skeleton woods had been as the aisles of the dead. 9 TWO WILDERNESS VOYA GERS At the village, after moons of semi-hiberna- tion, the warming April sun stirred the people to some impulse of animation. Muffled figures shuffled to and fro between the lodges and their fishing-holes in the ice. Lean wolf dogs skulked from lodge to lodge or yapped dismally as they were kicked away from hanging about the doors. Upon the outskirts a bunch of skeleton ponies rustled in the snow, hardy pigmies browsing upon the remains, of last year's vegetation. Here, too, the crows came and perched in the tree-tops— safely beyond the range of small shot — expectant of the annual feasts which spring- poor ponies furnish. The starving moons are cruel in the far north lands. The manido people get very angry; bad spirits prevail. At times Arctic hurricanes come sweeping the woods, one after another, and the angry wind-gods cast down trees in such dread- ful fashion that the hunters are appalled and the moose and deer are driven to the coulees of the highlands for shelter, where none but t} e wolves dare go after them. And so a half- starved people hail the swiftly returning sun with sober manifestations of joy. Fearing lest h' i progress may be obstructed they make many prayers and smoke offerings to Ki-tshe Manido. At Tall Gun's village the people had begun to take the fish which will not stir out of deep waters until the sun's rays begin to glimmer 10 A SPRING AWAK E N I N G through the ice. Laboriously the women had worked for several days chopping channels beside the crevasses, which here and there ran far out upon the lake. Into these openings the tribal nets had been lowered. These nets the hungry ones visited frequently. Equable divi- sion of small catches had several times been made and there had begun to be heard a low hum of renewed life in the wigwams. During three starving moons no fire had been built in the long lodge, no drum had been beaten, no gourd rattled, no song chanted. But, as the sun mounted one still forenoon, the tinkle of rivulets of water was heard, pools glittered upon the blue ice-field, and suddenly the roll of the conjurer's drum throbbed, the sound of his rattle clicked upon the still air and his voice was heard chanting in a strange tongue. The people were made glad; their pulses quickened for they knew that the medicine of Ghost Moccasin and their own prayers had prevailed. Tum-te-tum-tum! at last they heard him beat- ing it— the medicine drum of Dzhe-bi-o-mok-ke- zinl A thrill of unexpressed excitement ran all through the wigwams. Low it began, the music, then increased to a muffled roar like the drumming of a partridge's wings in foggy weather. The conjurer was alone in his lodge and soon his voice was heard in strange cries calling TWO WILDERNESS VO YAGERS upon the tnanidos; and when the medicine rattle was shaken some people were sure that spirits were arriving. Their arrival became a certainty when the noises of drum and rattle were drowned in a medley of appalling sounds, heard nowhere outside an isolated Indian camp. Thumpings and groanmgs, strange thrilling cries, rumbling thunderous noises as if Anemeke himself were speaking the grumbling, coughing notes of Makwa the bear, jugubrious hootings of Gu-ko- ko^ the owl-a very war of contending manidos seemed to rage inside Ghost Moccasin's wis- warn. " Surely this was the greatest conjurer of the Awanse tribes. Very old men could not remem- ber when the spirits had more undeniably mani- fcsted themselves. Yet there were those among lall Gun s wigwams who smiled sourly behind clouds of tobacco smoke. Tall Gun sat in his lodge well content with his faithful conjurer's performance. The head man s stomach was filled with fish, the season of plenty was at hand, and there was a comely new wife in his wigwam. If his mind held a taint of suspicion as to the origin of th. superhuman thumpings, groanings and frenzied cries which issued from Ghost Moccasin's lodge it was hidden behind the mask of gravity which sat upon his face while he blew volumes of blue smoke from his nostrils, turning the stem of his 13 cass* tUe a calumet to all points of the comoass and reverently skyward. Suddenly the noH^oJ Even the H^^"' "'?^" ''''^"^'l '" the%illage Even the dogs seemed driven to somnolence by this we.rd stillness broken only now and then by the harsh startlingr cry of a crow Suddenly out of the sky there dropped a clear booming call-^«.„«^^/ ga-ungk/ elunl The spell was broken-the answer^ to k„t pjye' outside their wigwams. They looked up at aun^ ah-quod the sky shading their eyes whh their palms Gaa^mk/ Deliberately the clear call rang down out of the blue ether. Quickly one h!!!h if ''"n \"'' '^^ blinking eyes saw hfgh- ng birds, the advance skirmish line of mi-kah the wild goose. • While they were yet watching delightedly their conjurer suddenly appeared among the7 ^hni m"""^"V^"«^^" violently beatinga dr^m Ghost Moccasin himself was painted and arraTd •n his most gorgeous and effective manner He began a chant, pointing skyward as he hro^ ti^' """^'-^ Manabozho had wrought through h,. prayers and the working of his pow wSs'oth"" '^'L^";''^ people fawfche TZTr, T^ head-dress, stained a vivid green, were those of mi-kah, the wild goose. TWO WILDERNESS VOY AGERS they looked at each other in astonishment, and when presently one came running from the nets to announce a great catch of the maskallonge, ley marveled in their joy. Truly it was won- derfull That afternoon there was feasting and a fire was lighted in the long lodge. The people gath- ered early in the evening, seating themselves around the edges of the big wigwam, where they waited in decorous silence for the great men to appear. Tall Gun came first and seated himself in the place of honor upon a skin reserved for him. As many great men do, Ghost Moccasin kept his audience in waiting until some of them yawned in sheer impatience. For an hour or more the older people sat, and the younger stood in a packed ellipse about the outer circuit of the smoothly worn ground floor of their primitive town-hall. Now and then the elder men turned to each other with some low-voiced remark, but even these refrained from smoking. The younger ones maintained a decorous silence, their eyes only shining with the light of impatience or of expectancy. The conjurer's success had that day been so manifested that he thought fit to annoi.ace him- self by a crier. His approach was therefore solemnly chanted from outside the lodge. There were old men and some younger folk whose 14 A SPRING AWAKEN I N G eyes twinkled, but they looked discreetly down their noses. Ghost Moccasin came in, his assist- ants bearing the sacred drum and medicine pouch. The conjurer had arrayed himself fantastically and earned a powerful medicine fetich and a wondrous rattle. His assistants began to drum and the medi- cine man, seating himself before a bright fire of fagots, began a series of public incantations, smoking to all the manidos and mumbling strange incoherences. After a sufficient length of ti ..e, dunng which the younger people were in a great state of suspension, the medicine man began an intelligible chant, and this is what he sang: I do not know where I am going. I depend upon the clear sky. Ho, you fugar maple, fast your sap is flowing, O my friends, 1 thank you, O my friends, I thank you. The first two measures were chanted very slowly 'vith impressive hiatuses and amid silence, b t the last lines rolled off his tongue quickly and were responded to by a general and joyous hand-clap that was like the scattered volley of a skirmish line. First the young girls came forward and danced. To the barbaric double time of the tom-tom and the rhythmic jangle of its bells 15 TWO WILDE RNESS VOYAGERS these moved modestly, their elbows at a slight curve, their moccasined toes turned inward. Ho, In-ne-na-tigl E-shig-o-ma-e-oosh, Ho, ni-ki-ni-ka-na, migwetsh, ni-ki-ni-ka na. The weird cadences of their chant imported in shrilling tones the thrill of awakening nature, the joyous prophecy of plenty, of content and good will among men. Louder beat 'the tom-tom, more fiercely jangled the bells, and the voice of Ghost Mocca- sin, raised in crying repetitive, was like a clarion call to action. Young men took the place of maidens in the dance and the action grew fast and furious until the timed rhythm of those swaying, leaping figures whirled the brains of the on-lookers into its mad, magnetic current. Wild cries of encouragement were shouted by the women and young folk. The feet of the young men beat upon the floor, ;heir sweating, painted bodies writhed, their faces grimaced as they rivalled each other in shouting the cadences of the chant. There were only two persons who were not apparently pleased with this dance and these were small unnoted people— a boy and a girl, of near a dozen years each, who stood behind an ugly woman, crowded between the inner posts of the big wigwam. These two were thinly clad 16 SPRING AWA K E N I NG „ J''*-i"''f °^ '^^^ '"'''■^ •"d««'l flushed but not with pleasure. The girl had disdainfully Lubet, rail Gun s squaw, had stained it. Her blue strouds sleeve carried most of this adorn- ment but some famt streaks yet remained to accentuate the hot blood of resentment and dis" gust which showed in her small round face. She stood erect against a post, her hands dangling a keenlymtelhgent and scornful little critic of this Awanse f^te dance. The boy, of the same height, stood on the ttn'r'n V^ their mistress, who was no otter than Tall Gun's old wife 'Lizbet. He had a shoulder crowded between two upright stakes as though he would have burst through thelhin pamtu,n. This one looked out from under " n i" r'' • ^^" ^"'^ ^'^"^'^d a Sioux scowl upon the whoopmg moving crowd •Lizbet Tall Gun was of an excitable nature bhe stood partly in front of her charges and in her eagerness to egg on the dancers to some . ew gnmace or contortion, the hostile faces of the boy and girl went unnoted. hJn''^ '''^' '' M.^ '" ""^"y ^^^^^' so «:'ose had been her surveillance, these children spoke worn '" !,''T,°^" '""S^"^- As the excited woman crowded forward the better to l^-se no TWO WILDERNESS VOYAGERS movement of the dance, the girl spoke behind her back, taking care not to look at her brother. "Younger brother," she said, "younger brother, let us soon go homeward." "The arrows of the Cree fellows," returned the boy, scowling more deeply under his mop of hair, "and the bow of my grandfather and some buckskins are hidden in a hol'ow-wood." "Waste, mi sun ! " said the girl, struggling to hide the satisfaction in her face. "Wastel I also have done i something. Secretly I h