Crossword-Solution: PUSA 4 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Among the Hos,(13) an old sorcerer called Pusa was known to turn himself habitually into a tiger, and to eat his neighbour's goats, and even their wives.

Later, leaping the sandy stream bed a little to the west of the cottonwoods, it spread in wild career over a huge tract along the left bank, and now, reuniting with the southern wing some distance down the valley, was roaring away to the bluffs of the Mini Pusa, leaving death and desolation in its track.

These are the Black Hills of Dakota, as we see them from the breaks of the Mini Pusa, a long day's march to the west.

Here behind us rolls another sandy stream, dry as its Dakota name implies,--Mini Pusa: Dry Water,--and to our right and rear is their sandy confluence.

Indian signals, that say to lurking warriors far and near, "Be on your guard; soldiers coming;" and so, here on the breaks of the Mini Pusa on this scorching Sabbath morn, the vanguard of the --th has reached and tapped the broad highway of Indian commerce.