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thing swallowable, and went to the door to smoke and look 
at the moon, the odour of the viands being quite sufficient. 
Next, came our accommodations for the night. The hut had 
no windows in it, but to avoid stumbling over the living, 
snoring crew upon the floor, a pine knot blazed upon the 
hearth, and here, stowed in one corner, ‘lay the Indian, his - 
squaw, his daughter about nineteen years old, two young 
papooses, a negro slave with an infant at the breast, and two 
dogs, whilst on a kind of shelf, raised about two feet from the 
floor, were perched the writer and his friend, with our saddles 
for pillows, and our horse blankets for covering, for this privi- 
lege we paid two dollars.* 
June 6th.—When morning dawned, we wished to make our 
usual ablations, but found that basin and towels, were not 
known in the domestic list ; however the squaw offered us an 
old bake pan and a piece of cotton cloth, which she pulled off 
of a bundle in the hut, we declined the novelty, and preferred 
*In this country, and all through the fouth and West, ae are much 
the Hast, and from what seems to me, to be an unfair cause, 
viz., the smallest general currency, is the dime, but where five and three cent 
saat are used, a are taken each to be of Siecce value of the other; now I 
this way —In neking: hangs bs mend be eure te sive three cent i aiceis ak 
to but threes; then, when 
a 
isiting New Orl t f , he would buy up three cent 
siouk ti cas i tie saci To be cick yas het asmall business, but 
turned out a large per centage in proportion, 
never seen, and thus, though you get nothing better for your 
‘money, you pay just this proportionate advance for it. Whether this arises 
: from the greater abundance of money, or the enlarged views of the Legere 
Fieere tamaad hae who are better able than myself. 
