ders committed in their skirmishes in Kansas on their way to Rod Clond, a Sioux chief, came to Fort Robinson the north. immediately after this massaere, and entreated to be allowed to take the Cheyenne widows and orphans into his tribe to be carcd for. The Government, therefore, lkindly permitted twen ty-two Cheyeune widows and thirty-two Cheyemme children- many of thom orplhans-to be received iuto the band of the Ogallalla Sioux.

An attempt was made by the Commissioner of Indian Af fairs, in his Report for 1879, to show by tables and figures that these Indians were not staryving at the time of their flight from Indian Territory. The attempt orly redounded to his own dis- gracc; it being proved, by the testimony given by a former clerk of the Indian Bureau before the Seuate comunittee ap- pointed to investigate the case of the Northern Cheyennes, that the commissioner had been guilty of absolute dishonesty iu his estimates, and that the quantity of beef actnally issued to the Cheyenne Ageney reported it, and that the Indians were claimed, "starving."

The testimony given before this committee by some of the Cheyenne prisoners themselves is heart-rending. One must haye a callous heart who can read it unmored

was hundreds of pounds less than he had actually, as they had When asked by Senator Morgan, "Did you ever really suffer from hunger " one of the chiefs replicd, "We were always we never had enough. When they that were sick though they could eat something, wo hungry; onee in awhile felt as had nothing to give them."

"Did you not go out on the plains sometimes and hunt buffalo, with the consent of the agent?"

We went out on a buffalo-hunt, and nearly starved while out; we could not find any buffalo hardly; we could hardly get back with our ponies; we had to kill a good many of our ponies to cat, to save ourselves from starving."