Though Inez and Ellen had passed an entire day in her
sight, it seemed as if the longings of her curiosity were increasing
with each new gaze. She regarded them as beings of an entirely
different nature and condition from the females of the prairie. Even
the mystery of their complicated attire had its secret influence on
her simple mind, though it was the grace and charms of sex, to which
nature has made every people so sensible, that most attracted her
admiration. But while her ingenuous disposition freely admitted the
superiority of the strangers over the less brilliant attractions of
the Dahcotah maidens, she had seen no reason to deprecate their
advantages. The visit that she was now about to receive, was the first
which her husband had made to the tent since his return from the
recent inroad, and he was ever present to her thoughts, as a
successful warrior, who was not ashamed, in the moments of inaction,
to admit the softer feelings of a father and a husband.
We have every where endeavoured to show that while Mahtoree was in all
essentials a warrior of the prairies, he was much in advance of his
people in those acquirements which announce the dawnings of
civilisation.
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