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relate. A widow named Harn was several 

 years ago taken captive by the Indians and 

 carried away prisoner. On their journey they 

 camped for the night on the bank of this creek, 

 and before they left the next morning they 

 drove a large stake through her body and left 

 her ; hence the name. By some it is called 

 ^'Suffering Woman." I notice that in a pub- 

 lished account of a fight, which Colonel Lewis 

 had with the Indians on this creek, three years 

 a^o, in which fiorht Lewis and five of his men 

 were killed, it is called "Spanish Woman," 

 but all frontiersmen call it "White Woman." 

 Between "White Woman" Creek and Paw- 

 nee River is a large tract of very low, flat 

 country, covered in many places by large 

 lakes and dense cane-brakes. The one on 

 which I camped was the Silver Lake, before 

 mentioned. When I came to this place, 

 brought no one with me, and consequently was 

 all alone in the midst of a broad lonely swamp, 

 my only company being buffalo and antelope 

 by day and wolves by night, and the latter, 

 especially, were more famiharthan agreeable. 



