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Show . d roarke's Expedition ~ LewLs an lit • 6 • • 1 d ) '" ho sit erect ncar ll1e French, petit clnen q~u. e o~ but when a1at·metl take d ke a whistlmg nOJse, lalOUth, an m~ In order to bring them out, we refuge in thetr holes. l fl barrels of water without Poured into one of the Ito es lVde ht the owner. After dislodge(\ an caug d filling it, but we . of the boles for six feet, WI! foun 'on digging down another 1 d not yet tlug half way to running a pole into it, that ']Ne ta two ft·ogs in the hole, d'scovered Iowever, 1 the bottom~ we l 'k ttl nake which had swa. . k'll d a dar ra es ' and near It. we 1 e lso infot·med, though we 11 · · do"'· we were a lowed a sma pt·atric ~· t of lizard and a snake, never witnessed the fact, that~ sorl The p~tit chien are ll 'tb these anima s. live habitua y WI bl small do,_. in some par-d they t•esem e a ~ . justly name ' as 1 e points of similarity to I 1 they have a so som tieulars, t lOYg l d bl the squirrel in every re-the squirrel. The hca res~m l est the tail like that of t tl at the ear IS s tor er, r. Sllect, cxcep 1 'I long the fur is JLDe, the ground-squirrel, the toe-nal s are ' and the long h au· · ·I S g ray• . 1 t'll continued from S t her 8 The WID( s 1 d Saturday, ep em • At seven miles we reaehe the soutbeas~ but 7:~:~:t::lied the Pawnee bouse, whrro a house on t e nor ' . d. the year 1 i96-7: be· d T ·udeau wmtere m • a trader, name 1 ' ear to the . d h' b'lls much bigher than usual, app . hm t IS, 1 • ' • Before reaching this house, north, about e•ght mtlcs off. 1 th side and a we came by three small islantls, on t te. no~ rcach~d ano· small creek on the south; and after Jcavm~ ll, camped, ther, at the end of seventeen miles, on wlu~h ;v:uC:aloe, and and called it Boat island: we here saw h~rd:) o d prairie some elk, deer, turk ic s, b cavci. ' a squtrrel, ant at hrough dog. The party on the north represent the.~ou:~~~ the ap· \Vhich they passed, as poor, rugged, and hl y, I d'ans· the pearance of hav.m g b een 1a t eI Y burnt •b y the nb It h s' ides, broken hills, indeed, approach t~e river ~~an; near tbO though each is b~rdeyed by a strlp of woo water. l!p tile JUissom·i. 69 Sunday, S<>ptember 9. \Vc coasted along the island on which we had encamped, and then passed tln·ee sand and willow islamls, and a numiJer or smaller sandbars. The river is shallow, and joine<l by two small creeks from the north, and one f'r·om the south. In the plains, to the south, arc great uum!Jers of !Juffa.loe, in herds of nea1·Jy five huudt ·ed; aJJ the copses of timber appear to contain elk or d<.'cr. We encamped on a sandl>ar, on the southern shore, at the distance of fourteen and a qua1·ter miles. September 10, Monday. The next day we made twenty miles. The morning was cloudy and dark, but a light breeze ft·om the southeast carried us past two small islands on the south, and one on the north; till, at the distance or ten and u. half miles, we reached an island, extending tot• two miles in the middle of the river, covet·etl with red cedar, from whic:h it derives its name of Cedar island. Just below this island, on a hill, to the south, is the backbone of a fish, forty-fhe feet long, tapering towards the tail, and in a perfect state of pct.t·jfaction, fragments of which were collcctetl and sent to 1\r a5~hington. On botlt sides of the ri vcrare high dark-coloured bluffs. About a mile and a half from the island, on the southern shore, the party on that side discovered a large and very strong impregnated spring of water; and another, not so strongly impregnated, half a mile up the hill. '"rhrec miles beyond Cedar island is a la•·gc island on the north. and a numl>er of sandbars. After• which is another, about a mile in length, lying iu tbe middle of the river, and scpat·at cd by a small channel, at its extl·emity, from another above it, on which we encamped. These two islands are called Mud islands. The river is shallow during this day's course, and is falling a little. The elk and buflaloe are in great abundance, but the deer have become scarce. September 11, Tuesday. At six and a half miles we passed the upper extl•emity of an island on the south; tour miles beyond which is another on the same side of the river; and about a quarter of a mile distant we visited a |