“The lieutenant!” began Smith; then: “Oh! of course;

hanged. I did not see them executed, but was afterward informed

that, in the absence of the usual mechanical apparatus used on such

occasions, a tree with a convenient limb under which two empty

barrels were placed, one on top of the other, furnished a rude but

certain substitute. In executing the sentence each Indian in turn

was made to stand on the top barrel, and after the noose was adjusted

the lower barrel was knocked away, and the necessary drop thus

obtained. In this way the whole nine were punished. Just before