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the plains do, they are very careless of offal about camp, and 
in time of plenty this evil accumulates, 
Our visitors left their temporary abode in a very disgusting 
state—half gnawed bones, and masses of cooked and raw flesh 
lying around, which soon, under the sun’s intense rays, made 
us sensible of their locality. 
As a sanitary measure, the Captain determined to break 
up our camp on the morrow, and move farther up the stream, 
and though we should miss the fine spring at this point, we 
should be nearer the land to be surveyed, which would be 
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excitement in our camp. About midnight a general stam- 
pede of our horses took place, and as Ke-tum-e-see had left 
in such a bad humour, we concluded of course that the 
Indians had stolen them, but- immediate pursuit being 
ordered, they were found in a ravine some miles off, much 
frightened, but supposed to have been by wolves, large packs 
of which had been prowling and howling around us every 
night during our stay. = 
We had scarcely got quiet again, when a mounted dragoon 
rode into camp, calling loudly for the captain, and exclaiming 
that his comrade had been murdered at the rancho a mile 
above us. a 
An officer, with the Doctor and a sufficient force, were sent 
up, when it appeared that the express rider from Fort Bel- 
knap to Fort Chadbourne, with a single dragoon as escort, had 
