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that reason, we marched to-day but five miles on the Santa Fe road, and 
encamped in the prairie, with good grass and near water. 
.— We started in the morning for ‘‘ Lone Elm-tree,’’ or ‘“‘ Round 
Grove,’’ (10 miles.). The ,prairie over which we travelled Jooked more 
beautiful than I had ever seen it. The grass had all the freshness of 
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was excellent. This long trail through the prairie, the 
wade only by thousands of large wagons that 
ly a better road than is met with in a great part of Mis- 
he higher elevation of the prairie, with a most grad- 
rent, and the facility of leading the road over the most 
the ground, explains it sufficiently. At ‘“‘Lone Elm-tree’’ 
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numbered, and that the little valley will look then more desolate than ever. 
and with the distant bluffs of the Kansas in the back round. EF under- 
stood that it is a favorite hunting ground of the Kansas Indians. 
May 25.—Noon halt, after five miles, near water; night camp, ten miles 
further on Rock cree. On the latter we found good grass, tolerable water, 
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butno wood. For the first time since our start, I saw to-day limestone in 
tivated life; but our Mexican mule boys (the best set of men for that pur- 
pose) brought the prisoners to camp in the morning. 
