Field Surgery with Our Frontier Force

firewood in our plains for food and gunpowder. Unkempt savages, their daily life a strugglo, their only joy a raid, very brave on their hills, but who only venture on our plains to sweep off cattle or women, the two items of local wealth to such a people ; for the sex, with them, is only on a par with the beast of burden or a household chattel. Imbued with feelings of the most implacable but mercenary revenge, they, under a rude kind of bastard honor, exact the old Mosaic law of justice? "Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot" (Ex. xxi. 24), or its value in silver; laying down codes by which the amount of blood-money is determined. Family and tribe feuds exist amongst them for generations; and, when not arranged satisfactorily in a pecuniary way, it is imperative that, supposing you and I were Beezootees, your grand-