EXPLORATION FROM A. D. 1843 To a. D. 1852. — 65 
was made to the valley of the Canadian river at Sand creek, in order to test and check the 
position of the party by the surveys that had been made along that stream. They now travelled 
south to the Kech-ah-que-ho-no, or main Red river, and, leaving their train at the place where 
the river comes out from the bluff of the Llano Estacado, ascended it to the spring which forms 
its sourée; From this they returned down the left bank of the river to the Witchita mountains, 
which were examined, and thence they proceeded to Fort Arbuckle, where the expedition 
terminated. 
