Well, these two troops of blacks started their terrific whoop in unison when they were a mile away from the waiting Sioux, and they got warmed up and in better practice with every jump their horses made.

I give you my solemn word that in the ears of us of the white outfit, stationed three miles away, the yelps those two Negro troops of cavalry gave sounded like the carnival whooping of ten thousand devils.

The Sioux weren't scared a little bit by the approaching clouds of alkali dust, but, all the same, when the two black troops were more than a quarter of a mile away the Indians broke and ran as if the old boy himself were after them, and it was then an easy matter to round them up and disarm them.

The chiefs afterward confessed that they were scared out by the awful howling of the black soldiers." "Ever since the war the United States navy has had a fair representation of Negro bluejackets, and they make first-class naval tars.

There is not a ship in the navy to-day that hasn't from six to a dozen, anyhow, of Negroes on its muster rolls.