CHAPTER IX. 



STEANGE MEETING OF THE WATERS THE BISON'S DOMAIN NUMBER 



OP BUFFALOES SLAIN BY MAN TEEEOES OF THE STAMPEDE 

 LANDSCAPE ON THE MISSOURI TRIBUTARIES OF THE MISSOURI 

 THE SIOUX CITY AMERICANS AT DINNER AN UNCOMFORTABLE 

 NIGHT WILD FLOWEES OF AMEEICA CAPTAIN SOUSLEY INDEPEND 

 ENT-WORKING PADDLES DANGER FROM SHIFTING SNAGS SANI 

 TARY EFFECT OF THE WATERS OF THE MISSOURI WRECK OF THE 

 DUNCAN CARTER THUNDER-STORM THE FIRST OF THE EQUINOX 

 AUTUMNAL TINTS ADIEU TO THE COMFORTS OF CIVILIZATION 

 WAKENDAH PRAIRIES RIVER ACQUAINTANCE CARD SHAEPEES IN 

 TERESTING PANOEAMA PAU-PAU-CATAUBA WINE INCREASE OF 



BEATERS PUTTING IN FOR TREMENDOUS BARGAINS KANSAS 

 YISIT FROM " THE BLOODY ARM OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS " 

 MEETING WITH THE SON OF AN OLD CONSTITUENT EXTREME POINT 

 OF CIVILIZATION. 



AFTER steaming for twenty miles up the comparatively 

 bright waters of the Mississippi, we arrived at its junction 

 with the Missouri, and there I had an opportunity of 

 observing the different colours of the two rivers, and 

 how reluctant the waters were, when running in the 

 same direction between the same banks, to mingle the 

 one with the other; their antipathy to each other 

 reminding me of the antagonistic properties of oil and 



