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ment than any other Indian nation I am acquainted with. In fact, they are 

 better educated, better livers, and a better people than their immediate 

 white neighbors upon the frontiers of Arkansas and Missouri. 



Late in the afternoon of July 4th I reached Van Buren,my point of des- 

 tination, happy again to mingle amid scenes and associations from which I 

 had been so long separated ; and here I would take leave of the reader, 

 provided I have been so honored as to command his interest and attention 

 thus far. If the preceding pages have added aught to his stock of useful 

 information, or served to while away a leisure hour agreeably, the object 

 which primarily influenced their publication will have been accomplished,— 

 if contrariwise, it remains for me to beg pardon for the trespass I have un- 

 designedly committed upon his time and patience. 



