who had been employed in the pursuit of the flying beauty appeared with her head at the End of a pole, which they planted at the door of a the Tent – whence she made her she made her escape – and the horse she had Stolen was delivered to the Owner[.] They then retired in silence to their respective Tents – nor did the men of the Village heed their arrival for they considered the head or scalp of a woman beneath their Notice[.] Not so the women overjoyed at the Spectacle the collected round it in great numbers, dancing and turning it into redicule[.] They pulled it by the hair from the pole – tossed it with their feet from Tent to Tent throughout the Village the one exclaiming to the other – There is the Enemy! take care! be kind to her! At length the Head was consigned over to the boys – as a mark to exercise their arrows[.] The young men who went to look out for this unfortunate woman, followed her track by means of marks left when she digged up roots for her sustenance[.] When she reach the Mountain

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