They tie the prisoners to stakes set in the ground, into which they fix their leg or rather foot, and They place a man at each side who stake is closed by another tied together at a man's height. sleeps near them and who is careful to visit the prisoners from time to time during the night. tliis

When they have lost any men on the field of battle they paint the men with the legs in the air, and without heads and in the same number as they have lost; and to denote the tribe to which they belonged, they paint the animal of the tribe of the deceased on its back, the paws in the air, and if it be

the chief of the party that is dead, the animal is without the head.

If there be only wounded, they paint a broken gun which however is connected with the stock, or

even an arrow, and to denote where they have been wounded, they paint the animal of the tribe to

which the wounded belong with an arrow piercing the part in which the wound is located; and if it be a gunshot they make the mark of the ball on the body of a different color.

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THE IROQUOIS AND OTHER INDIAN TRIBES.

If they have sick, and are obliged to carry them, they paint litters (boyards) of the same

number

as the sick, because they carry only one on each litter.

When they are thirty or forty leagues from their vilage they send notice of their approach, and