CHAPTER VII. 



GRIPE'S VIEWS OP INDIAN CHARACTER THE DELAWARES' THE ISHMAEIITBS o 



THE PLAINS THE TERRITORY OF THE "LONG HORNS " TEXAN8 AND THEIE 



CHARACTERISTICS MUSHROOM ROCK A VALUABLE DISCOVERY FOOTPRINTS IN 

 THE ROCK THE PRIMEVAL PAUL AND VIRGINIA. 



WE noticed many fine rivers rolling from the 

 northward into the Kaw, which stream we 

 found was known by that name only after receiving 

 the Republican, at Junction City. Above that point, 

 under the name of the Smoky Hill, it stretches far 

 out across the plains, and into the eastern portion 

 of Colorado. Along its desolate banks we afterward 

 saw the sun rise and set upon many a weary and 

 many a gorgeous day. 



All the large tributaries of the Kansas river, con- 

 sisting of the Big Blue, Republican, Solomon, and 

 Saline, came in on our right. Upon our left, , toward 

 the South, only small creeks joined waters with the 

 Kaw, the pitch of the great "divides" there being 

 towards the Arkansas and its feeders, the Cotton- 

 wood and Neosho. 



We had now fairly entered on the great Smcky 

 Hill trail. Here Fremont marked out his path to- 

 wards the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific, and on 

 many of the high buttes we discovered the pillars of 



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