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choly, I a I aaa a familiar voice, and going to the — 
door of the tent, who should I meet but my old friend S. 
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on his way to Fort Washita, and having ben’ throw: from 
his horse in the prairie—the horse eseaping+—had , snadehis 
way on foot to our camp—stange coincidences happen in! life, er ooaee 
but this was a joyful one for he and I, that after! so many 
years and changes in fortune, we should meet by accident in 
this wild Indian country, to fight over our battles bythe camp 
fire’s light. Had he dropped from the ‘clouds,* IL could “not 
have been more surprised, certainly not more delighted; and _ 
in spite of rain and insects, we spent a lively evening. We 
supplied him with a sites and he remained with us several 
days. we : Ses i 
June 5th.—Repairs to the broken wagon detained: ae antl 
a late hour this morning. We got off at ten, a.%., and 
crossing the swollen Brazil, passed through several short 
prairies variegated with the wild sun-flower, marygold and 
wild-rose. A few hours brought us to the Narrows, where — 
the road ran through a rugged mountain gorge, very difficult 
for wagons. The locality is interesting from its ‘geological 
formation We found a vein of bituminous coal seventeen 
Tae thick, and nu £. hbo of limestone on nil hatw2 
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argillaceous. Near the road, we passed an emigrant’s grave, 
covered with a pent house of logs, and marked by the: tail- 
board of a wagon, nailed upon a stake, upon which was rudely 
written with tar, “ George Bemshaus, born in Prussia, October 
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