CHAP IV. 
DEPARTURE FROM MOBATEE — COURSE OF THE 
RIVERS— ARRIVAL OF MAKOON— AND HIS LIFE. 
May 31st. , 
We left Mobateeat ten a. m., after taking leave 
of the chief and his people. At eleven w^e crossed 
the Mobatee River, vs^hich was grown over with 
reeds about ten feet high, presenting a very novel 
appearance, even the tops of the waggons could 
not be seen after they entered the river. In some 
places the water was about two feet deep, but the 
run of the river was not perceptible. At noon we 
passed the junction of the Mobatee with the Ar- 
rowsmith River, which turns to the south, and is 
soon lost in the sand, after running a few miles under 
ground, it rises again, and empties itself into the 
Malalareen, the latter discharging its waters into 
the Yellow River. Not perceiving in the course 
of my former journey that the Arrowsmith sunk 
into the sand, I supposed it went out from the 
