If such romantic sketches were suggested to him, by the sight of a few gypsies, not a group near one of these fires but would have furnished him material for a separate canvas.

I was so taken up with the spirit of the scene, that I could not follow out the stories suggested by these weather-beaten, sullen, but eloquent figures.
They talked a great deal, and with much, variety of gesture, so that I often had a good guess at the meaning of their discourse.

I saw that, whatever the Indian may be among the whites, he is anything but taciturn with his own people; and he often would declaim, or narrate at length.

Indeed, it is obvious, if only from the fables taken from their stores by Mr.Schoolcraft, that these tribes possess great power that way.
I liked very much, to walk or sit among them.

With, the women I held much communication by signs.