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- should we not go? , Before we — we heard that you had killed his 
sable and ceased to be his children ; but we came among you peaceably, 
~ holding out our hands.. Now we find that the stories we heard are not 
~ ties, and that you are no longer his friends and children. We have thrown 
away our bodies, and will not turn back. When you told us that your 
young men would kill us, you did not know that our hearts were strong, 
and you did not see the rifles which my youhg men carry in their hands. 
. We are few, and you are many, and may kill us all; but there will be 
mucli crying in your yee: for many of your young men will stay be- 
hind, and forget to r our warriors from the mount as. Do 
you think that our great éhief will let his soldiers die, and forget to cover 
their eras 2 Before: fhe qnows melt again, his warriors will sweep away 
- your villages as the fire does the prairie in the autumn. See! [ have 
own my white houses, apd iny people are ready : when the sun is 
ten paces higher, we shall be on the march. If you have any thi ing to tell 
Us, you ae say it soon.” I broke up the conference, asIcould do noth- 
th oo ase ge ; and, being resolved to” proceed, nothing was to be 
ined by “Accompanied by our hospitable friends, we returned to 
the ogee re “we had in ounted-our horses, and our parting salutations had 
been exchanged, Shien one of the chiefs (the Buil’s Tail) arrived to tell 
e that they had determined to send a young man with us; and if [I 
roa point out the place 0 Se our evening aes he should join us there. 
“The young man is poor,” said he; “he has n eee and | sepetts ie to 
give: him one.”? J dese rbed 0 fo him the place | where I intended to 
~ and, shaking hands, in a few minutes we were among the h 
itation of whites shut out from our view. — ied 
e road led over : an interesting plateau between the North f fore or ahe 
Platte on the right, and Laramie river on the left. At the distance of ten 
miles es from the | fort, w we entered the sandy bed of a creek, a kind of defile, 
‘by precipitous rocks, down which-we wound our way for several 
gushes with considerable pee id force out of the limestone rock. ‘It is 
“Called: € ‘the: Warm — furnishes to the hitherto ee bed. oo the 
-- erous S Hasmapar the Missouri river, 8 sly the westel 
hat formation. ers this: point’ "Tmet rwith no oss is 0 
F was desirous to visit the ‘Platte 4 near ‘the. point- staides at Seabee ithe 
aeies shee — followed this stream, for two or three miles, to 
rece se which brig et ae fass 
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aadred yaks; aes place where, on the left bank, a very large ‘Spring 
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