Fifty players on each side, sticks in hand, advanced to the center of the ground, and arranged themselves somewhat after the fashion of football players, to intercept the passage of the ball toward their goals.

Now they awaited the coming of the ball.
There were several young girls, the daughters of chiefs.

The most beautiful of these appeared.

She was not more than sixteen or seventeen years of age, as slender and graceful as a young deer, and she was dressed in the finest and most richly embroidered deerskin.

Her head was crowned with a red coronet, crested with plumes, made of the feathers of the eagle and heron.