GKEEN KIVER VALLEY. 



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called back to me in the most emphatic terms to come on, or I would be 

 caught by the Indians. Two young men volunteered, however, to guard 

 me while 1 sketched, and, with cocked rifles, watching the top of the 

 wall, urged me to get through as speedily as possible, making use of 



those cogent expletives found only in the vocabulary of such charac- 

 ters. It might truly be deemed sketching under difficulties. 



Figure 2 exhibits forty-three rifles, a small lean horse, his ribs being 

 visible, and a principal chief; stretched along the main branch of the 



