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Passing rapidly through the, to them, marvelous experience of the railroad, and its flying express train, the sight of towns, villages, cities, over valley, plain, and mountain - to the magic floating house (the steamer), sadly learning, while struggling with mal de mer, the existence of the "big waters" that tradition alone had bruited to incredulous ears, these red men passed the first portion of a tempestuous voyage, which landed them, wonderingly surprised at the sight of thousands of white men peacefully greeting their arrival, in the busy commercial mart of Antwerp.

After introducing the Indians to hotel life for the first time, a tour of the city was made, among the notable points visited being the Cathedral, which grand edifice aroused their curiosity. The grand picture, Rubens' "Descent from the Cross," brought to the minds of all - white men, "friendlies," and "hostiles" - the contributing cause of the late regrettable campaign, the "Messiah craze" - an interest intensified by the fact that the aesthetic - looking "SHORT BULL" and some of the others had been the leading fanatical believers (probably, even apparently, conscientious), promoters and disciples of the still mysterious religious disease that lately agitated the Indian race in America. In fact, after the deathe of "SITTING BULL," the central figures of this stage belief were "SHORT BULL" as the religious leader, and "KICKING BEAR" as the War Chief. Grouped together with "SCATTER," "REVENGE," and others, in moody contemplation of this subject, was the late defier of a mighty nation of 65,000,000 people, nearly all of whom teach or preach the truthfulness of the picture's traditions -

AFTER THE BATTLE, - FIELD OF WOUNDED KNEE. - CAMPAIGN 1890-91.