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here like the Ohio when it has low banks, but 

 muddy. They had a float of dried rushes on which 

 they put their few garments ; the two men stripped 

 without hesitation, but the squaw seemed a good 

 deal put out at our presence; she commenced 

 undoing her sarape two or three times; eventually 

 with a laugh and joke with her companions, she 

 waded into the muddy stream until the water 

 nearly touched her garment, and then with great 

 rapidity and grace removed it, the same instant 

 sinking into the water so quickly, that her person 

 was not in the least exposed ; and she swam the river 

 fully as rapidly as her associates. 



October l8th. We encamped a few miles 

 further on with nothing for our horses, and morn- 

 ing saw us tramping over dust and sand, to the 

 sand hills twelve miles distant. When we reached 

 them, I mounted one of them to see how our road 

 lay; immediately the rolling sand hills of the 

 Carolina coasts were brought to mind; there was 

 not a tree to be seen, nor the least sign of vegeta- 

 tion, and the sun pouring down on us made our 

 journey seem twice the length it really was. 



[No date.^ We encamped at the wells [Cooke's 

 Wells], and started out at two in the morning to go 

 thirty-six miles to the next grass, having given our 

 animals a good feed of musquit beans, which we 

 found in great abundance, about five miles below 

 us. We went on well until we came to the lagoons, 



