le, and ceased to be his children ; but w 
lies, a and th that 
w, and you are many, 2 and 
may iil us all; ae there will - much cry- 
ing | in your villa ages, for many of your young 
will stay behi nd, jor forget to return 
our warriors from the m 
uld 
and, ing ‘eahioed 
s scene eo as tg be gained by de 
— by our hom natle friends, 
had mounte 
been exchanged, when chie 
Bull’s Tail) ag to on me that they had 
determined t n with us ; 
and if I oad poiit out the place of our eve- 
ng 7 
and expects you to give him one.” I|f 
where I i in 
described to him the place 
fight, and Laramie river on the left. At the 
distance of ten miles from the fort, we en- 
the west imi of tha for 
we 
fossils of an 
we 
r selves. and 
d nee India 
«The | of t 
[1842. 
this point I met with no 
y denctipeion, 
was maa ye . visit the Platte near the 
es the Black Senay and 
follo vary por stream, f 
three miles, to the mouth ; where " encamp- 
ird on a s aud 
|préle ee re our animals. 
having been fo oo thin to deetads our- 
‘ibd instr aia from the rains, 
which in this acre country are attend 
with cold an wrens weather, I had _ 
cured from the Indian Lara lera- 
bly large os a8 about e eighteen feet in diame- 
feet in_ height. or! " 
y pitched, is, from 
r tents 
in an India wn odge. While we were engaged 
unskilfull oe erecting this, the inter 
ae rs Bisso ch ette, serivenenea capella 
aie — wife. She awpued at our 
ae 8S, a red her assistance, of 
risers were frequent worded obliged 
to avail ours elve lira acquired 
sufficient expertnes viteh it t without diffi- 
cu mf From this sate we had a fine 
e gorge where the Platte issues wo the 
Black hills, changing i oe character 
into a vie of the 
rom a mountain stre 
plains. Immediately scan us 2 valley ot 
the stream w e pers at the 
distance of a few miles, river had 
cut its way through the hills, was ike narrow 
u | cleft, on one side of which a oo precipice 
of bright red reek ro: 
low hills eae lay bectioe 
—In the eubai, while breakfast 
was bei th "prepared, I visit ace with 
my my favorite man, Basil Lajeu men, Enter- 
ing so far as there was footing for the mules, 
at oat beat above the 
we Ruadiounted, and, tying our animals, con- 
soar our way on foot. 
‘Like the whole 
cS acs formed of 
