A war party was formed among the Dahcotahs to seek more scalps, more revenge.

But the Track-maker was weary of glory.
He went with the party, and never returned.

Like _her_, he died in battle; but the death that she sought to avert, was a welcome messenger to him.

He felt that in the grave all would be forgotten.
ETA KEAZAH; OR, SULLEN FACE.
* * * * * Wenona was the light of her father's wigwam--the pride of the band of Sissetons, whose village is on the shores of beautiful Lake Travers.
However cheerfully the fire might burn in the dwelling of the aged chief, there was darkness, for him when she was away--and the mother's heart was always filled with anxiety, for she knew that Wenona had drawn upon her the envy of her young companions, and she feared that some one of them would cast a spell [Footnote: The Indians fear that from envy or jealousy some person may cast a fatal spell upon them to produce sickness, or even death.

This superstition seems almost identical with the Obi or Obeat of the West India negroes.] upon her child, that her loveliness might be dimmed by sorrow or sickness.
The warriors of the band strove to outdo each other in noble deeds, that they might feel more worthy to claim her hand;--while the hunters tried to win her good will by presents of buffalo and deer.