See NOTES TAKEN. 
ended by suggesting them, They are a noble -race, very 
| athletic, but short in stature. 
_ It is a religious principle with them never to run from the 
foe, a fact which their enemies attribute to a funny cause, 
viz., the shortness of their legs, they say “Delaware can’t 
run, he got short leg, must stand and fight heap.” 
One of their superstitions is, that the Great Spirit in the 
shape of a huge eagle hovers over them. When pleased, 
he appears in the clouds, and occasionally drops a feather. 
When angry, he rises out of sight, and speaks in thunder. 
The feather is supposed to render the wearer invulnerable. 
The Delawares and Shawnees assimilate and intermarry. 
We expected an addition of three Delawares and a Shawnee, 
at Fort Belknap, thus making our Indian corps complete, and 
formidable. 
Sun down, found the camp all bustle, preparatory to a 
night march, and ere the harvest moon showed her calm pale 
face, we were on the road to Gainesville, where we arrived in 
two hours. 
This collection of five or six log cabins, dignified with the 
name of a town, was rendered celebrated in the annals of 
storms by a most terrific tornado, which occurred here on 
the twenty-eighth of May, (the same whose ravages I before 
remarked upon in the Choctaw Nation), the traces of which, 
had they not come under my observation, too palpably to be 
mistaken, I should have put down in the same category with: 
the Munchausen stories. < 
