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beautiful views continually meeting our eyes at every turn in the 
winding path. There were high, conical-shaped hills, bearing on 
their tops forest trees, with dense, thick foliage; at the next mo¬ 
ment a little shady nook, with silvery rivulet murmuring over its 
pebbly bed, would peep upon one’s sight. A high ledge, with a 
cool spring gushing from its side, and flowers overhanging it, came 
next. 
Our guide took longer steps than we, and seemed more used to 
travelling in the woods, for I had scarcely time to see all I wanted 
to, get over places dry-shod, and climb up the steep hills, before 
he would be far out of sight. However, if I kept the last strag¬ 
gling one of our party in view, I felt safe. When we all finally 
came together again, as they at last waited for me, our guide was 
coming from the lake with his hands full of most beautiful flowers. 
They were larger than a white pond-lily, and much more beauti¬ 
ful, with the same sweetness. The Indians call the flora “Yon- 
kopen,” and they live, at some seasons, upon the seeds of the 
plant, of which there some eight or ten, of a nut-like appearance, 
in each seed-vessel. The Kaw Indian women often wade into the 
water for them as food. Dr. B. informed us there were enough 
in this little lake for the subsistence of six or seven families for 
weeks. 
Last night some of the gentlemen whose love for slavery was 
outraged by the out-spoken words for freedom, uttered on the 
fourth, with guns and pistols, and many muttered threats of re¬ 
venge, started from town to give us a call. Their discretion was 
probably greater than their valor, and it might be that the effort 
of climbing this hill would at least give time for the cooling of 
their rage. 
8 th. — Sunday we had company, but they all attended church. 
How I wish we could have one old-fashioned, New England Sun¬ 
day, with the ringing of church bells to call us to service, and 
quiet at home ! We are full of company at all times, not except¬ 
ing even Sabbath day. We now have meetings every Sabbath at 
five o’clock, at the house, or, as the notice was given, “ under the 
shadow of Dr. II.’s house.” The ladies sit in the front room, the 
