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posed by Captain Marcy; swore eternal friendship for the 
whites, and ended by volunteering to return and induce his 
people, by all means, to meet us on the Clear Fork. Another 
smoke all round, and the talk closed; the chief went to his 
shealing, and we to repose, after our early start and hot day, 
—thermometer one hundred and four in the shade. 
August 11th.—At one, a. ., we were on the march again, — 
and moving very slowly on account of the roughness of the 
prairie. . ) 
Ke-tum-e-see and wives marched with us, intending to 
spend the day, and leave in the morning for the camp of his 
band. 
Arriving at Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos, we found 
so much work to be done, in bridging, that orders were given 
to encamp. 
The heat was intense, the thermometer, at nine a, M., one 
hundred and five degrees in the shade, the stream was full of 
fish and turtles, so that those who chose to brave the heat, had 
fine sport. 
We saw but little of the chief and his wives, as they were 
resting all day. A general lassitude also pervaded our camp, 
‘from early rising, long marches and intense heat, so that the 
day passed quietly. 
During our march, we found plenty of the missletoe on the 
Mesquite trees; we found limestone and iron ore in abund- 
ance, the timber, elm, mesquite, wild china, and post oak. 
August 12th.—As early as usual we were in motion, and 
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