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a strode of an axe, having been previously severely wounded. la 
the hoilpw sycamore, there were found three cubs At five, 
hoisted sail, and continued until seven, having this day made 
twenty-eight miles. Towards evening, passed beautiful undula-s 
ting hills, gently sloping to the river. What charming situa¬ 
tions for seats and farms! 
Tuesday 16 th. Set off without wind—the river rising. At 
eleven, the wind so much against us that we were obliged to lie 
by. At three we continued our voyage, and as it was resolyed tq 
tow, I set out with my rifle, expecting to meet the boat at the 
head of a long bend. This is the first excursion I have made in¬ 
to the country. I passed through the bottom with great difficul¬ 
ty, on account of the rushes, which grow as high as a man’s head, 
and are matted with vines and briars. The beauty of the upland 
in some degree recompensed. Clean and open woods, growth, 
oak, hickory, <kc; the grass beginning to appear green. Saw se¬ 
veral deer, and abundance of turkeys, We are now in a country 
which abounds with game. I came late in the evening to the 
boat, I having been supposed lost in the woods. Our hunter 
hau been more successful than I, having killed a she bear with 
four cubs. The river very crooked in the course of this day .—* 
Passed some places of thin woods—not quite pr airie, on the 
bank of the river. 
Wednesday \ 7 th. Breakfasted under sail. Passed the Grand 
yiver, N. p. side. It is two hundred yards wide at its mouth ; a 
very long river, navigable six or eight hundred miles, and takes 
its waters with the river Des Moines. The traders who were ip 
the habit of visiting the Mahas, six hundred miles above this on 
the Missouri, were formerly compelled to ascend this river in 
order to avoid the Kansas Indians, who were then the robbers of 
the Missouri There is a portage of not more than a couple of 
days, from the Grand river to the Mahas. 
» At the confluence on the lower side, there is a beautiful sit¬ 
uation, The bottom is- a handsome prairie, which is seen extend¬ 
ing for the first time on the Missouri, to the water’s edge, md 
about a mile in width: the upland then rises with a gentle as¬ 
cent, with here a .d there &few dumps of trees. Immediately 
at the paint gf junction., there are. about fifty acres of well tim- 
