184 Ji-ANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



As soon as my eyes became accustomed to the imperfect light of the cave 

 I discovered its walls were covered with hieroglyphics and representations of all 

 the animals common on the plains, and others to me unknown, also battle scenes 

 and figures of men with an arrow across the body. The figures of men were 

 made with a triangle for the head, and another for the body. These figures ap- 

 peared of great age, many of them overgrown with moss, and were ruder and 

 different from the representations of men and animals made by the wild tribes of 

 the plains at that time. 



While studying these interesting characters, to my surprise I saw letters 

 in a language I could understand, and on rubbing off the moss there stood re- 

 vealed, carved by the hand evidently of an educated man, the name and date 

 "TVREDO, 1786." The letters and figures were about an inch in height, 

 of beautiful proportions, and of uniform size and slope. I could discover no 

 other evidence of civilized man having visited the spot. 



A careful examination of the cave at this spot satisfied me that the walls had 

 remained in the form I then saw them unchanged, perhaps, for centuries. On 

 going around to the river outlet of the cave, I found the walls covered with 

 hieroglyphics, but not in so perfect a state of preservation. I intended to make 

 a sketch of the representations on the walls and to explore further in the dark and 

 crooked recesses of the cave, but on the second night we heard the distant sound 

 of drums up the river, and on going to the top of Cedar Bluff saw the valley 

 lighted by the camp-fires of the wild Indians. Hastily gathering up our effects we 

 drove rapidly down the river, and I have not visited the place since. 



Will some tell us who Mr. "TVREDO" was and what he was doing in 

 the heart of Kansas in the year 1786. 



TREATIES WITH INDIAN TRIBES FOR LAND IN MISSOURI. 



BY JOHN P. JONES, KEYTESVILLE, MO. 



Within a year after the treaty of peace with Great Britain in 1783, our Gov- 

 ernment began a system of treaties with the various Indian tribes living in its ter- 

 ritory with a view of definitely locating the districts in which they should be al- 

 lowed to live and hunt unmolested, and rendering them a compensation for the 

 territory which they relinquished to the whites. After the acquisition of the 

 Louisiana purchase in 1803, a part of the area of which, is embraced in the 

 State of Missouri, the Government continued its treaties with the Indian tribes 

 claiming rights and privileges therein, realizing that it owed a duty to the hardy 

 spirits who were pushing across the Mississippi, to bring to their firesides as much 

 as possible, a sense of security from Indian attacks, that they might be the better 

 enabled to prosecute the development of the newly acquired country. 



Our State historians have universally omitted any reference to these treaties 

 by the Government for the friendship of the Indians, and the extinguishment of 



