The Swooping Eagle reached his village in safety. He
was one of the few Siouxes who escaped from the massacre of that fatal
day; and for a long time he alone of the saved was able to lift his
voice, in the councils of his nation, with undiminished confidence.
The knife and the lance cut short the retreat of the larger portion of
the vanquished. Even the retiring party of the women and children were
scattered by the conquerors; and the sun had long sunk behind the
rolling outline of the western horizon, before the fell business of
that disastrous defeat was entirely ended.
CHAPTER XXXI
Which is the merchant here, and which the Jew?
--Shakspeare.
The day dawned, the following morning, on a more, tranquil scene. The
work of blood had entirely ceased; and as the sun arose, its light was
shed on a broad expanse of quiet and solitude. The tents of Ishmael
were still standing, where they had been last seen, but not another
vestige of human existence could be traced in any other part of the
waste.
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