* 
et EP LON LON ty 
patente te MES . 
er tears of meat sufficient 
camped, in 
road. During the night w ce 
sion of thunder aan with heavy and eon- 
tinuous rain, and towards morning the water | best a 
suddenly burst over the banks, flo oding the 
of many a, destroyed i 
n 
Indians seis e 
a e rig 
adily inferring, from 
encampment, sae fae 
ere Pawnee hdiend. and confiden 
cood treatment from a 
et an Kioway and Dasianebe 
but proved — a dr <a 
their greedy rapacity ; and, e de- 
lay, ae considerable difficu 
ed in extricating ou 
cneampe on ‘the river about fifteen 
miles below 
Apri one 
af: the o grass, and s ning wooded 
along the streams with s g trees 
peng — es of coton- Wood sos here 
the count n epti to change its} 
character, . peseaniagcin’ ar Lilie, wooded, 
and sited region, with a profu- 
sion of grasses, and watered with innumera 
ble little streams, which ee with 
oak, large elms, and the arieties of 
we recent report t 5 ae t, from 
ag Segond ha eaed: th Pawnee vil- 
Wedd he 2 SVM LE WO 
tly | w 
pares = buffalo g 
r 
ie | 
of the par 
of A 
ceed- | Sas. 
rselves from.the village, | 1n 
181 
ee to the lower course of the 
nsas river 
aP OF th 
ich began nt ie ~ fail as soon as w 
er pated ee a uniform breadth 
rieties. 
ile engaged in crossing one of the nu- 
merous nace kare frequently impeded 
and chee e 
es 
t through 
ae the accudeatal discharge of a rifle 
—a tifying and painful mischance, to be 
cxpled for life by an accident, - having 
accomplished in safety ng and 
ven a (Alexis Ayot) was sho 
ty. 
fter having travelled directly along its 
banks for tw o hundred and n 
ards its junc- 
pabliesn fo rk Ps the Kan- 
ty miles ; and, continu- 
asterly shee, in shout’ twenty 
ee we eidieel the w rom Santa: 
sites, an on the : day 
July ¢ encam at the little town of © 
saa, sos ben of te a river. | 
Dulas our protracted absence 
lomaans in the _ of which we had ne- 
ce to great varieties 
weather and of climate, no one case of sick- 
er occurred among us. 
ere ere ended our land journey; and the 
placed at good pastu 
and os aa ei Succes part in the 
coming ex 
On the 6th of F haga Wa utived ot 
at St. 
I og where the party'was finally disbana- || 
ed; es eth number of the men having their 
the neighborhood. — 
h aS 
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