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Show Lewis and ClaJ•ke's Expedition \Vhich are attached at the top by a whitl1 of small willow~, and spreading out so as to form at the base a circle of ten or fourteen feet in diameter: against these are placed pieces of driftwood and fallen timber, usually in three ranges one on the other, and the interstices are covered with leaves, bark, and straw, so as to form a conical figure about ten feet high, with a small aperture in one side for the door. It is, however, at best a very imperfect shelter against the inclemencies of the seasons. Sunday 5. We had a fine morning. and the wind being from the cast we used our sails. At the distance of five miles we came to a small island. and twelve miles farther encamped on the nol'th, at the distance of seventeen miles. The country like that of yesterday is beautiful in the extreme. Among the vast quantities of game around us, we c.Hstin~ guish a smalJ s~ecics of goose differing considerably from the common Canadian goose; its neck, bead, and beak, lJe. ing much thicker, larger, and shorter in proportion to its size, wh~ch is nearly a third sma1ler; the noise too resembling more that of the brant ot· of a young goose that has not yet fully acquired its no( e; in other respects its flolom·, ha.bits, and the number of feathers in the tail, the two species correspond; this species also associates in tlocks with the large geese, but we have not seen it pair off with them. Tbe white brant is about the size of the common brown brant~ o~ two thirds of the common goose, than which it is also SIX mches shorter from the extremity of the wings, though the beak, head, and neck are larger and stronger: the body and 'vings arc of a beautiful pure lvhite, except the black feathers of the flrst and second joints of the wings; the beak and legs are of a reddish or :flesh-coloured white. t~e eye of a moderate size, tl1e pupil of a deep sea-green inCircled with a ring of yellowish brown, the tail consists of sixteen feathers equally long, the flesh is dark and as well as its note differs but little from those of the common IJrant, whom in form and habits it resembles, and with whom it Up the Missouri. sometimes unites in a common flock; the white brant also asioeiate by themselves in large flocks, but as they do not seem to be mated or paired ojf, it is doubtful whether they r e.side he1·e during the summer for the purpose of rearing their young. The wolves are also very abundant, and are of two species. First, the small wolf or burrowing dog of the praides, wl1ich are found in almost all the open I>lains. It is of an intermediate size between the fox and dog, very delicately formed, fleet and active. 'rhe cars are large, erect, and pointed; the head long and pointed, like that of the fox; the tail long and bushy; the hair and fur of a pale reddisll b1•own colour, though much coarser than that of the fox; the eye of a deep sea-green colour, small and piercing; the talons rather longer tban those of the wolf of the Atlantic states, which animal as far as we can Jlercci ve is not to be found on this side of the river Platte. 'I'hesc wolves usually aisociatc in bands of ten or twelve, and are rarely if ever seen alone, not being able singly to attack a deer ot• antelope. 'rbey live and rear their young in burrows, which they fix near some pasi or spot mucb frequented by game, and salJy out in a body against any animal wJJich they think they can overpower, but on the slightest alarm retreat to their burrows making a noise exactly like that of a small dog. The :iecond species is lower, shorter in the legs and thicker than the Atlantic wolf; their colour, which is not affected by the seasons, is of every variety of shade, from a gray or blackish brown to a cream coloured white. The1 do not burrow, not· do they lr.trk, but howl, and they fl·e quent the woods and plains, and skulk along the skirts of the buffa.loe herds, in order to attack the weary ot· wounded. Captain Cla1•ke and one of the hunters met this evening the J:ugest b1·own bear we ba\'e seen. As they :fired Jw did not attempt to attaek, but Jled with a most trcmen- |