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the thievish propensity and dishonest conduct of the fel 

 low in charge of the baggage, when Mr Campbell in 

 formed me that in addition to my complaint there had 

 been another lodged against the same delinquent, and 

 that he had little doubt but that he would be dismissed 

 from further employment. 



On reaching St Louis, then, I had arrived at the last 

 large town, on that route to the plains, of refinement and 

 civilization, and I found that some waggish citizens of the 

 United States rather contemptuously called it " the turn 

 ing-back place of the English sportsman." The eyes of 

 the American public, in fact, were fixed on me, attention 

 having been particularly aroused and drawn to my po 

 sition by my letter to the sportsmen of the New World, 

 which had gone the round of the local press, and by pub 

 lications of my intended visit which had appeared in the 

 London newspapers. I in no way disliked the notice that 

 had thus been accorded, or the doubts as to my further 

 progression, which, though not openly divulged, I could 

 see were nevertheless by some entertained; it afforded me 

 much quiet amusement, and I had considerable internal 

 satisfaction in drawing out some of my transatlantic friends 

 into an inflamed and vivid picture of the dangers I should 

 have to encounter. The hostile attitude that two thousand 

 Indians in war-paint had assumed, their numbers prob 

 ably overstated, directly in front of the line by which the 

 hunting grounds could be attained, was also much dwelt 

 on. Searching glances of some of these acquaintances of 

 mine, which followed their vivid narrations, were in 

 tensely satisfactory to me, but I do not think they af 

 forded any very great information to their proprietors. 



An amusing story also was told me, of a young, a very 

 young gentleman, who had made his way from England 



