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ment to others. Even their stock adionoetes that sine gua non of a voy- 
ageur, without. which the night fire is gloomy, was entirely exhausted.. 
owever, we shortened their “homeward journey by a small supply from 
our own provision. They gave us the welcome intelligence that the cae 
falo were abundant some two days’ march in advance, and made usa. 
present of some choice pieces, which were a. on acceptable change from 
our salt pork. In the interchange of news, and the renewal of old ac- 
quaintanceships, we found wherewithal to ‘fill a bus sy hour; then we 
mounted our horses, and they shouldered their packs, and we shook hands 
and parte . Among them, I had found an old companion on the northern 
prairie, a hardened and hardly served veteran of the mountains, who 
been as much hacked and scarred as an old moustache of Napoleon’s «olde 
guard.’’ He flourished in the sobriquet of La Tulipe, and his real name. 
i DAVEE @nteW. Finding that he was going to the States only. because. 
his companf was bound in that direction, and. that.he was rather more 
willing to. Ae wih me, I eek: him again into my service. . We trav- 
elled this day but seventeen m 
At our evening camp, 5 ea — three figures were discovered ap~ 
proaching, which our glasses made out to be Indians. They proved to 
be. Cheyennes—two men, and a boy of thirteen. About a month since, 
they had left their people on the south fork of the river, some three hun- 
dred miles to the westward, and a party of only four in number had been 
to the Pawnee villages on a horse-stealing excursion, from which “they 
Wore returning sees tae They were miserably mounted on wild 
horses fro: 
ansas plains, and had no other weapons than bows 
long spears; and had they been discovered by the Pawnees, could 
eee by any possibility, havé®escaped. They were mortified by their ill 
success, and said the Pawnees were cowards, who shut up their horses in 
| their lodges at night. Linvited them to supper with me, and. Randolph 
ard the young Cheyenne, who had been eyeing each other suspiciously 
and curiously, soon became intimate friends. After supper, we sat down 
on the grass, and I placed a sheet of paper between us, on which they 
acl rudely, but with a certain degree of relative truth, the watercourses 
of the country which lay between us and. their villages, and of which I 
| to have some information. Their companions, they told us, had 
; taken ened route over the hills; but they had mounted one of the sum- 
ae 
ry 0 e country, whence they had caught a glimpse of our party, 
dent t of good treatment at the ha nds of t hes whites, haste ned to 
—s join cotapahy: Latitude of the camp. P39 SE 
We made the next morning sixteen jiles. _Iremarked that the ground 
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