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my beloved wife. I was also presented with two pairs of 

 moccasins, an Indian riding-whip, one collar of Grizzly 

 Bear's claws, and two long strings of dried white apples, 

 as well as two Indian chesses. I bought the skin of a 

 fine young Grizzly Bear, *wo Wolf skins, and a parcel 

 of fossil remains. I saw t velve young Buffalo calves, 

 caught a few weeks ago, and yet as wild, apparently, as 

 ever. Sprague will take outlines of them to-morrow 

 morning, and I shall draw them. We have put ashore 

 about one-half of our cargo and left fifty of our engages, 

 so that we shall be able to go much faster, in less water 

 than we have hitherto drawn. We are all engaged in fin- 

 ishing our correspondence, the whole of the letters being 

 about to be forwarded to St. Louis by the steamer " Trap- 

 per. " I have a letter of seven pages to W. G. Bakewell, 

 James Hall, J. W. H. Page, and Thomas M. Brewer,^ of 

 Boston, besides those to my family. We are about one 

 and a half miles above the Teton River, or, as it is now 

 called, the Little Missouri,'' a swift and tortuous stream 

 that finds its source about 250 miles from its union with 

 this great river, in what are called the Bad Lands of Teton 

 River, where it seems, from what we hear, that the coun- 

 try has been at one period greatly convulsed, and is filled 



* W. G. Bakewell was Audubon's brother-in-law ; James Hall, brother of 

 Mrs. John W. Audubon ; J. W. H. Page, of New Bedford. Thomas M.ayo 

 Brewer, who became a noted ornithologist, edited the i2nio edition of 

 Wilson, wrote Part I. of the " Oology of North America," which was pub- 

 lished by the Smithsonian Institution in 1857, and was one of the authors of 

 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway's " History of North American Birds." He 

 died in Boston Jan. 23, i88o, having been born there Nov, 21, 1814. He is 

 notorious for his mistaken zeal in introducing the English Sparrow in this 

 country. — E. C. 



2 The Teton, or Bad River, has long ceased to be known as the Little 

 Missouri, — a name now applied to another branch of the Missouri, which 

 falls in from the south much higher up, about 23 miles above present Fort 

 Berthold. Teton River was so named by Lewis and Clark, Sept. 24, 1804, 

 from the tribe of Sioux found at its mouth : see the History of the Expedi- 

 tion, ed. of 1893, p. 131, and compare p. 267. The Indian name was Chicha, 

 Schicha, or Shisha. — E.G. ' . 





