This is something that is unknown to many white people. It is a medical process that by all Indians is called a Pow Wow. When I was in company in the west with Professor Shultz, at Fort Bridger, I had the pleasure of falling in with a band of Ute Indians that were going to have an Indian Pow Wow. The Professor was very anxious to see a pow wow, and proposed to me to go. I consented, but upon getting there we ascertained the fact that the chief objected to white men being present unless they would pay him a good price, in order that it might be a good evidence that they were witnessing the pow wow in good faith, and were not there to make fun or act as scoffers. So the Professor gave the chief some blankets and a fine pony, which was by the chief considered a complimentary act of high honor, and he gave us both a permit to attend the pow wow. We went with great curiosity and anxiety to see the act performed and learn the theory. The warriors were all in order. There was a fine dry brush piled over a space of ground about ten feet square and set on fire and let burn down to coal and ashes. But before I proceed farther I will say that an Indian pow wow is the way Indians treat bad colds and lung troubles. Well, when the brush had burned down the coals were all scraped away, and small logs rolled over the hot steaming ground; but before they were rolled on the hot ground the ashes were sprinkled with water. As soon as the logs were rolled on the ground a blanket was spread over them, and a young warrior was brought out who was sick from a heavy cold, and laid on the blanket and logs and covered up. Then the Indian songs were sung, and they all danced around the warrior, while the steam from the hot ashes was causing him to have a big sweat. After one hour they took and wrapped him in a dry blanket and quietly put him in comfortable quarters, and the next morning the Indian patient had no symptoms of cold or tendency to pneumonia.