Excerpt from Belden, the White Chief, or Twelve Years Among the Wild Indians of the Plains Chapter XIV. I es and Tobacco - Where did Man Learn to Smoke - The Tobacco Plant here the English Found it - Old Indian Pipes - How and of What they are Made - The Way an Indian Smokes - Ceremonies in Smoking - The Tomahawk Pipe - Its Use - The Phil. Kearney Battle Club A Horrible Instrument - Pipe Stones - Indian Kinne-kan-nick - How it is Made - Sumaeh Tobacco - The Indian's Acknowledgment of God - Tobacco Bags - How and of What they are Made - Their Value. Chapter XV. - Tra ping - When the Indians Learned the Art of Trap ing How to Set the raps - A Trapper's Life - Hard Work - Number of Heaver Usually Taken with a Dozen Traps - Indian Peculiarities - Crow Superstition about the Bear - The Crow Chief, Iron Bull - Sioux Superstition about the prairie-dog - What this Animal Really is - A Case of Prejudice - Bear Claws. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.