APPENDIX. 
293 
(No. 7) 
Extracts from the account of a journey from Fort Clarkson the 
Missouri , to the Salines , on ihe Arkansas , by Mr. Sibly. 
AFTER giving a number of medals to the Paunee chiefs* 
and having various councils with them, Mr. Sibly, on the 4th 
of June left their villages, and proceeded to the Little Osage 
camp, on the Arkansas, about 75 miles south, and 16 east from 
the Fanis, where he safely arrived on the llth, I remain¬ 
ed, says he, several days with the Osages, who had abundance 
of provisions, they having killed 200 buffuloe within a few days. 
Where they had their camp, the Arkansas was about two hun¬ 
dred yards wide, the water shallow, rapid, and of a red color.— 
On the 16th, the Indians raised their camp, and proceeded to¬ 
wards the hilly country on the other side of the Arkansas.— 
I continued with them about 50 miles west, and 30 miles east, 
when we fell in with some men of the Chaniers band, who in¬ 
formed us that their camp was at no great distance, and the 
camp of the Big Osage still nearer, in consequence, I determin¬ 
ed to pass through both on my way to the Grand Salines. Oh 
the 21st, I rode S. 40 miles, E. 30, to the Big Osage camp; 
nearly all the warriors were at war, or abroad hunting. I was 
remarkably well treated by Young White Hair, and family, I 
however, remained but one night with them. On the 22d, I rode 
20 miles S. 15 E. to the Chaniers camp, where we arrived about 
one o’clock. We were treated well by the head men, and in¬ 
deed, this is one of the tribes most attached to the Americans. 
The chief’s name is Clermont. From hence forty miles to the 
Grand Saline, which we reached early on the 24th. I hasten to 
give you a description of this celebrated curiosity. The Grand 
Saline is situated about 280 miles S. W. of Fort Osage, between 
two forks of a small branch of the Arkansas, one of which washes 
its southern extremity, and the other the principal one, runs 
nearly parallel within a mile of its opposite side, ft is a hat’d 
level plain of a reddish colored sand, and of an irregular or mix-, 
-£■4 figure; its greatest length is from N. W. to S. E. and its 
