He longed, though trembling, to see the countenance of the being whose appearance is the sure warning of calamity.

His superstitious fears told him to turn, lest the deity should rise before him; while his native courage, and love of the marvellous, chained him to the spot.
The storm raged wilder and louder--the driving wind scattered the hail around him, and at length the chief raised the door of his teepee, and joined his frightened household.

Trembling and crouching to the ground were the mothers and children, as the teepee shook from the force of the wind.

The young children hid their faces close against their mothers' breasts.

Every head was covered, to avoid the streaked lightning as it glanced over the bent and terrified forms, that seemed to cling to the earth for protection.
At the end of the village, almost on the edge of the high bluff that towered above the river, rose a teepee, smaller than the rest.