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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 marvellous results of the ancient white man's energy and artistic architectural skill. They were immortalized by the camera in the Ducal Palace, St. Marc's Piazza, and in the strange street vehicle of the Adrian's erstwhile pride--the gondola-- contributing another interesting object lesson to the distant juvenile members of their tribe--to testify more fully to their puzzle 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 throught the beautifully scenic Tyrol--the Bavarian capital, Munich, with its naturally artistic instincts, gave a grand reception the the beginning of a marvellously successful tour through German-land, which included Vienna (with an excursion on the "Blue Danube"), Berlin, Dresden, Leipsic, Magdeburg, Hanover, Brunswick, Hamburg, Bremen, Dusseldorf, Cologne, along the Rhine past Boun, Coblenz, "Fair Bingen on the Rhine" to Frankfurt, Stuttgart, and Stresburg.

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 feted 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), COL. CODY, the Indians, adn 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 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 Sheridon, and headed by the redoubtable "SHORT BULL," "KICKING BEAR," "LONE BULL," "SCATTER," and "REVENGE" --were given special permission to come with "BUFFALO BILL," for a short European tour, and left Philadelphia in the chartered Red Star steamer Switzerland.

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Passing rapidly through the, to them, marvellous experience of the railroad, and its flying express train, the sight of twons, villages, cities, over valley, plain, and mountain--to the magic floating house (the steamer), sadly learning, while struggling with ma 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 commerical mart of Antwerp.

After introducing the Indians to hotel life to the first time, a tour of the city was made, among the notable points visited being the Cathedral, which grand edifice aroused their curiousity. The grand pciture, 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 death of "SITTING BULL," the central figures of this strange beleif 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 might nation of 65,000,000 people, nearly all of whom teach or preach the truthfulness of the picture's traditions--

OFF ANTWERP.

GRIM VISAGED WAR IN WINTER--GATHERING THE DEAD AFTER THE BATTLE OF WOUNDED KNEE, SOUTH DAKOTA.
GHOST DANCE CAMPAIGN, 1890-1.

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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 marvellous results of the ancient white man's energy and artistic architectural skill. They were immortalized by the camera in the Ducal Palace, St. Marc's Piazza, and in the strange street vehicle of the Adrian's erstwhile pride--the gondola-- contributing another interesting object lesson to the distant juvenile members of their tribe--to testify more fully to their puzzle 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 throught the beautifully scenic Tyrol--the Bavarian capital, Munich, with its naturally artistic instincts, gave a grand reception the the beginning of a marvellously successful tour through German-land, which included Vienna (with an excursion on the "Blue Danube"), Berlin, Dresden, Leipsic, Magdeburg, Hanover, Brunswick, Hamburg, Bremen, Dusseldorf, Cologne, along the Rhine past Boun, Coblenz, "Fair Bingen on the Rhine" to Frankfurt, Stuttgart, and Stresburg.

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 feted 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), COL. CODY, the Indians, adn 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 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 Sheridon, and headed by the redoubtable "SHORT BULL," "KICKING BEAR," "LONE BULL," "SCATTER," and "REVENGE" --were given special permission to come with "BUFFALO BILL," for a short European tour, and left Philadelphia in the chartered Red Star steamer Switzerland.

61

Passing rapidly through the, to them, marvellous experience of the railroad, and its flying express train, the sight of twons, villages, cities, over valley, plain, and mountain--to the magic floating house (the steamer), sadly learning, while struggling with ma 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 commerical mart of Antwerp.

After introducing the Indians to hotel life to the first time, a tour of the city was made, among the notable points visited being the Cathedral, which grand edifice aroused their curiousity. The grand pciture, 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 death of "SITTING BULL," the central figures of this strange beleif 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 might nation of 65,000,000 people, nearly all of whom teach or preach the truthfulness of the picture's traditions--

OFF ANTWERP.

GRIM VISAGED WAR IN WINTER--GATHERING THE DEAD AFTER THE BATTLE OF WOUNDED KNEE, SOUTH DAKOTA.
GHOST DANCE CAMPAIGN, 1890-1.