92 NOTES TAKEN. 
CHAPTER VII. 
_ UPPER CROSS TIMBERS TO LITTLE WITCHITA. 
Thoughts at Sunset.—Enter the Timber.—Camp fire half way.—Old soldier 
brought in.—Jackson’s Adventure—Singular Mounds.—The Delawares in 
.—Sunset Scene.—Arrive at Little Witchita. 
Jury 7th—At an ats hour the mime decided to cross 
the remaining three miles of road intervening to the edge of 
the Upper Cross Timbers, and encamping for the day, com- 
mence the passage early in the evening. 
Soon the train was in motion, and without breakfast we 
marched briskly along, snuffing the fresh air of the flowery and 
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dew-spangied prairie, bod 
where tents were soon pitched and preparations made tosatisfy 
appetites keenly sharpened by the morning’s work. 
Before leaving our bivouac I caught an enormous tarantula 
and a large species of wasp, which burrows in the sand and is 
very “anomous, as it avenged its death by stinging me, from 
the effects of which my hand was lame for a week. 
One of the men caught a large diamond rattlesnake, five 
feet long, with eight rattles, which being unbruised I prepared * 
for our collection; we also caught a new species of lizard and: 
made some addition to our fossils. 
Wagon brought in another fat doe, and Jackson brought 
