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Show 16 FROM FORT LEAVENWORTH TO FORT KEAROT. frightened at the danger and disgusted already with the trip. Jt was here that we first saw a train " corralled." The wagons were drawn up in the form of a circle and chained together, leaving a small opening at but one place, through which the cattle were driven into the enclosed space at night, and guarded. The arrangement is an excellent one, and rendered impossible what is called, in Western, phrase, a " stampede"- a mode of assault practised by Indians for the purpose of carrying off cattle or horses, in which, if possible, they set loose some of the animals, and so frighten the rest as to produce a. general and confused flight of the whole. To a few determined men, wagons thus arranged form a breastwork exceedingly difficult to be carried by any force of undisciplined savages,- Occasional showers during the day. Evening clear and pleasant, with a bright moon. Day's travel, twelve miles. ^ , . Saturday, June 2.- Bar. 29.17; Ther. 64°. The general course to- day has been north- west, over a rolling prairie, country, indented by deep ravines, formed by numerous small streams flowing into the Missouri, which runs eight or ten miles to the north-cast. In crossing a steep ravine in the forks of one of these affluents of that river, a part of one of the wagons was broken, the repair of which occupied the remainder of the day, and obliged us to encamp on the left bank of the stream, the bluff of which was quite steep. Near the top of the. bank was a stratum of shale ajbout two feet thick; the overlying limestone being considerably undermined by disintegration: over the limestone was a layer of light- coloured friable sandstone. In the shale, no fossils were discovered, but the limestone contained stems of encrinites. The strata appeared to be horizontal. Grass and water are here very abundant, and fine springs are to be found on the south side of the stream, which is richly* wooded. Day's travel, seven miles. Sunday, June 3.- Bar. 29.01; Ther, 80°. Camp not moved today. The cliff on the north side of the creek was traced for about a mile up the stream. The shale continues horizontal. In some parts it was dark, and apparently carboniferous, but no fossils were discovered in it. Above it the limestone was sandy and ferruginous, and the upper layers contained many fossils,- spirifer, productus, & c,- mixed with small shells. The cliff was from one hundred and fifty to two hundred feet high, facing north- west. Monday; June 4.- Bar. .29.18; Ther. 65°. The, road, in the morning was very sinuous, from its following the crest of a high |