About noon
`` Then the young brave must not anger him , '' returned the chief , solemnly . `` I should like to know how far we are from camp , and how much farther they intend taking us , '' said the trapper . `` Their village is half a day 's march to the setting sun , '' replied Whirlwind , `` and we evidently are from six to seven days ' journey from our camp . '' About noon they entered their village , displaying their captives in triumph to the rest of the tribe , who surrounded them in great numbers , grinning and twisting their naturally ugly visages into frightful grimaces , at the same time filling the air with yells of delight and satisfaction . That night there was another revolting feast . The victims being three Indians of a peculiar form and features different from any they had ever seen . `` They are from over the desert , '' said Whirlwind to Howe 's inquiry of what tribe they were , `` and have been taken in battle .