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~ part, so as to permit the breeze to pass freely, it is converted into a pleas- 
“ant summer residence, with the extraordinary advantage of being entirely 
free from mosquitoes, one of which I have never seen in an Indian lodge. 
While w. we were engaged very unskilfully in een. this, the interpreter, 
oMr para; arrived, accompanied by the Indian and his wife. She 
ughed at our ‘awkwardness, and offered her assistance, of which we were 
a ntly afterward obliged to avail ourselves, before the men acquired 
: “suilicient expertness to pitch it without difficulty. — From this place we 
da fine view of the gorge where the Platte issues from: the’ Black hills, 
 Spngiae its hpeauat abruptly froma mountain stream into a river of the 
plains. Immediately around@us the valley*%f the stream was ‘tolerably 
open; and at the distance of a few miles, where the river-had cut its” way 
through the hills, was the narrow cleft, on one sile of which a lofty preci- 
Piceof: ae red rock rose vertically. ‘above the low hills which lay be- 
Se 53 2. in the: morning, while breakinst was being prepared, I visited 
: “ihe pose with my favorite man, Basil Lajeuiesse. Entering’ ‘so far as - 
es Ab feos for the inules, we dismounted, and, t ing our animals, 
way-on on foot. eed ‘the Seat country,” the - Raa! of the 
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¢ sere  OecastOHATSy broken: by pil and Aas ‘water Ponouds ~¢lear. Oa 
- either. side rose the red_ precipices, vertical, and sometimes overhébatog, 
~ two and four hundred feet in height, crowned with green summits, o 
~ which were ‘scattered a few pines. At the foot of the rocks was the link be 
~ detritus, formed of masses fallen from-above. Among the piues that grew 
ee here, and on the occasional glia were the cherry, (cerasus virginiana,) 
= eur , and grains de beeuf (shepherdia argentea.) Viewed in the sun- « 
= shine of a pleasant morning, the e-scenery B= of a-miost striking and ro- 
mantic c be eawtys. a arose from the picturesque disposition of the objects, 
vivid con st of ee Jd | thooght with auch pleasure of our 
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