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regular ford, which is one-fourth of a mile above us; but lost sey- 
eral of their horses. To-day, the man who was drowned yester- 
day was buried, his body having been found by our. men engaged 
4in rafting. His friends sent tous for his clothes ih which to bury 
him; and, before the sun went down, he was deposited in his long 
resting place: ‘requiescat in pace.” 
At 11 o’clock, Colonel Doniphan came to our camp and informed 
us that General Kearny wished to see us. We afterwards learned 
that the general had some inquiries to make in regard to the route 
by the Smoky Hill fork; a route that Lieutenant Peck and myself 
had travelled when we were attached to the command of Colonel 
Frémont; but the roughness of that country, the absence. of all 
roads, and the scarcity of water and wood, and the poverty. of the 
pasturage, render the ansas river route much to be preferred. ° 
At 3 o’clock we commenced otr march, and soon struck a road 
_ that we pursued until near 10 o’clock at nighty when »we encamped 
near some pools of water, having been made aware of our approach 
' to them some time before they were in sight, by the cry of the kill- 
deer plovers, (charadrius vociferous.) We soon kindled our fires of 
*‘bois de vache,” and then found we had camped iin a prairie 
dog village; abad place for picketing horses, as the neighborhood 
is generally destitute of grass. On our march we obtained a sin- 
gular species of cactus, resembling roundish bodies coveréd with 
long protuberances, whose tips were crowned with stars of white 
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allowed us to approach quite close before they tool 
Mediums of different refracting powet ewhile seeming lakes wo 1 
Spring into existence, whose farthest shore seemed widely sepa- 
tated from us by the broad volume of water that intervened, 
, There were many dusky wolyes (canis, nubilus) prowling around 
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