yiii CONTENTS. 



CHAP. XII. 



Sunrise on the plains. Blue jays. Donkey rabbits. Clog-shaped 

 stirrup. Encampment at Black Jack Creek. The Jew and the 

 Samaritan. Marrian. Dotterel. Kill-deer plover. Hundred Creek. 

 Necessity of electric conductors on the plains. Changes of tempera 

 ture. Benefits of abstinence from tobacco. Brutal cruelty. Charac 

 teristics of my men. John Manton guns. Shot at a rattlesnake. 

 Tales of rattlesnakes. Amusing conversation. Democratic inde 

 pendence. Intoxicated Indian. Indian ponies. 189 206 



CHAP. XIII. 



Travelling doctors. Indian attack on the Government mail. Alarm 

 ing tidings. Hesitation as to line of march. E-ock Creek. Blue- 

 winged teal. The canvas-back duck. UnexpectedTencontre. Chief 

 Tackalyoucanget. News of the red-skin warriors. Big John Spring. 

 Reported spread of ill-feeling among the redskins. Conversation 

 with an American emigrant. A frontier man's complaint. Weak 

 ness of the United States government on the frontiers. Liability to 

 fever and ague in the prairies. Bad effects of tobacco and whiskey. 

 Causes of the Indian outbreak. 207224 



CHAP. XIV. 



Ignorance of my guide. A solitary desert. Clark's Creek. Wild 

 grapes. Dangerous position of a mule-driver. The Fort. Valley of 

 the Kansas river. The beard in a hot climate. Arrival at Fo*t 

 Eiley. Kind reception of the author by Major Wassell. Pleasures 

 of a comfortable bed after the prairie encampment. Medical advice. 

 United States' soldiers. Irish in the army of the United States. 

 Military salutes. National Airs. Serenade by the regimental band. 

 An unlucky day. The Jefferson Bricks of America. Scurrilous 

 detractors. The prairie-dog. Chapman's Creek. Courtesy of 

 American officers. Longing for the first bison. Major Martin and 

 Mr Bayard. 225241 



CHAP. XV. 

 American bison. Exciting sport. A buffalo's sommersault. A trophy 



