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their lives, and when they apprehend danger from 

 quarrelling, will remain quiet and peaceable. 



Saturday, 17. North West end of DeviVs Lake. 

 The w 7 eather is extremely mild, for the season. 

 The surrounding country is all on fire ; but happi- 

 ly for us, we are encamped in a swampy place. 

 When the fire passes over the plains, which cir- 

 cumstance happens almost yearly, but generally 

 later than this, great numbers of horses and buffa- 

 loes are destroyed ; for those animals when sur- 

 rounded by fire, will stand perfectly still, until they 

 are burned to death. — This evening, we killed an- 

 other buffaloe, in the same manner as we killed 

 one, the last evening. 



Sunday, 18. The weather is still mild, and we 

 see many grass-hoppers, which appear unusually 

 early in the season. As I found that we were 

 coming on too slowly with our heavy loads, about 

 twelve o'clock, I left our property in charge of 

 three of my people, and,am going to the fort with 

 the others, for horses to come for it. 



This afternoon we met several of the X. Y. 

 people, who were in search of Indians ; but from 

 the information they received from us, they 

 thought them at too great a distance, and they 

 v are, therefore, accompanying us to the fort.— 

 the same success has attended us this evening, 

 which we met with the two preceding days, in re- 



