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Artistic Florence, practical Bologna, grand and stately Milan, and unique Verona were next added to the list. Verona's superb and well-preserved Arena," excelling in superficial area the Colosseum and holding 45,000 people, was specially granted for the Wild West's use; and the home of Shakespeare's love-lorn heroine placed another picture in the Red man's tour of the native land of his discoverer, The Indians were taken by "BUFFALO BILL" to picturesque Venice, and there shown the marvelous results of the ancient white man's energy and artistic architectural skill. They were immortalized by the camera in the Ducal Palace, St. Mare's Piazza, and in the strange street vehicle of the Adriatic's erstwhile pride-the gondola - contributing another interesting object lesson to the distant juvenile members of their tribe - to testify more fully to their puzzled senses the fact of strange sights and marvels whose existence is to be learned of in the breadth of knowledge necessitated by their future existence.
Moving via Innsbruck through the beautifully scenic Tyrol-the Bavarian capital. Munich, with its naturally artistic instincts, gave a grand reception to the beginning of a marvelously successful tour through German-land, which included Vienna (with an excursion, on the "Blue Danube "), Berlin, Dresden, Leipsic, Magdeburg, Hanover, Brunswick, Ham- burg, Bremen, Dusseldorf, Cologne, along the Rhine past Bonn, Coblenz “Fair Bingen on the Rhine" to Frankfurt, Stuttgart, and Strasburg.

ARENA, VERONA.
At Strasburg, the management decided to close temporarily this extraordinary tour and winter the whole company. The quaint little village of Benfield furnished an ancient. nunnery and a castle with stables and a good range; here the little community of Americans spent the winter comfortably, being feasted and fêted by the inhabitants, whose esteem they gained to such an extent that their departure was marked by a general holiday.
Leaving the temporary colony under the charge of his director partner, MR. NATE SALSBURY (whose energy found occupation in attending to the details of the future), Co. CODY, the Indians, and your humble servant departed to America, arriving safely, and proceeded to the seat of the Indian difficulties in the distant State of Dakota.
After a short, bloody and mixed campaign, peace was restored, the Government authority was secured, and a selected band of Indians-composed equally of the "active friendly," headed by Chiefs "LONG WOLF," "NO NECK," YANKTON." CHARLEY." "BLACK HEART," and the "band of hostages" held by the military under Gen. Nelson A. Miles, at Fort Sheridan, and headed by the redoubtable SHORT BULL KICKING BEAR, "LONE BULL," "SCATTER," and "REVENGE -were given special permission to come with "Burrasc BILL" for a short European tour, and left Philadelphia in the chartered Red Star steamer Switzerland