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Having received on board the detachment that had arriv- 

 ed from the Konza village, except Messrs. Say and Jessup, 

 who, on account of ill health, remained at Isle au Vache, we 

 left the mouth of Wolf River on the 2nd of September. A 

 party of hunters, furnished with a horse for the transporta- 

 tion of game, were despatched at the same time with instruc- 

 tions to hunt on the south side of the river, and to join us 

 again in the evening. We had little difficulty in procuring a 

 constant supply of venison. Deer are very numerous on this 

 part of the Missouri, and we had several opportunities to 

 kill them from on board, as they were swimming across the 

 river. 



Twenty-one miles above the mouth of Wolf River, and 

 on the same side, is the entrance of the Grand Nemahaw, 

 a considerable river, which rises in the plains between the 

 Platte and the Republican Fork of the Konzas river, and 

 running eastwardly about one hundred and fifty miles, dis- 

 charges into the Missouri a little north of latitude forty de- 

 grees. In the straightness of its course, the rapidity and 

 turbulence of its stream, it has a general resemblance to the 

 other western tributaries of the Missouri. A few miles above 

 the Nemahaw, and on the opposite side is the mouth of the 

 Tarkio a smaller stream. 



On the 4th of September we were joined by the hunters, 

 who brought two deer, and informed us they had killed 

 several others. Lieutenant Field's boat was allowed to re- 

 main at the encampment of the preceding night, after the 

 departure of the steam boat, for the purpose of taking on 

 board a large quantity of honey. Swarms of bees were found 

 here in great numbers, and the honey they afforded made a 

 valuable addition to our provisions, consisting now in a 

 great measure of hunters' fare. 



Finding one of the valves of the steam engine much worn 

 and leaky, we were now under the necessity of stopping for 

 a day to have a new one, which we had brought, adapted to 



