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Show 11 G JOURNAL OF A VOYAG~ 27tb July, Sunday.-We e~1ba~ked at ~alf p~st five ' l k and arrived at the Indians camp at 7 o clock. 0 c oc ' (. . h T'hey had been alarmed the day bdore, and In t ~even- . b· , · 1 the trace and son1c of the ch1ds sat 111g sent 1ncn acL< u ' up .a l l m.g ~ ·ht . l3reakbsted with them. Abou. t halTf lp as.t three o'clock encamped in sight of the Osage nver. leJ_c being every appearance of rain, we halted thus early m order to give the Indians time to prepare temporary can:ps anu· ' to secu1 . e 0 u1 · bagg·'1 ge · I went out to hu.n t, and fmng at a deer, near two oi the Indians who wel:e Ill tl~c wood' they knew the difference of ~he rcp_ort of n~y nfle ~rom their gun 'were alarmed, and munedlatdy reured to camp. Distance 13 1nilcs. '1.8tb July, Monday.-Embarkcd at half pa~t 5 o'clock, and at half past 10 arrived in the Osage nver, where we stopped, discharged our gun.,, bathed, &~. We then proceeded on about six mil es, where we waited for and crossed the Indians to the west shore, and then pro· ceeded on to the first i land and encamped on the west side. Sans Oreille, and four or five young men o~Jly, coming up, the rest encamping some distance. bchmd. Killed one deer and one turkey. Distance 19 miles. '29tb July, Tuesday.-All the Indians arrived very early and the Big Soldier, whom l had appointed the of: ficer to regulate the march, was n1uch displea ed that Sans Oreille and the others had left him, and said for that rea· son he would not suffer any won1an to go in the boat, and by that means separate the party ; but in trut1l 1·t was from jealousy of the men whose women went in the boats. lie began by flogging one o( the young n1en and was a~out to strike Sans Oreille 's wif but was stopped by huu and told that he knew he had dt one wrong, butt1 1 at t hc , vw omen were innocent. We then cro~sed them and embarked a; half pa t eight o'clock. About twelve o'clock we fotllll TO THE SOURCES OF THE ARKANSA \V, &c. 1 11 the Indians rafting the river, when the first chief of the Little Osage, called Tuttasuggy (or the v\TinJ), told me that the man whom the Big Soldi r struck had not yet arrived with his wife, "but that he would throw them away." As I knew he was extrcrncly mortified at the dissensions which appeared to reign amongst them, I told hin1 by no means,-that one of my boats should wait for the woman and .her child, but that the man might go to the devil, as a pumshment for his in~ubordin aticm. I then left B~1roney with one bnat, and procc".,U''d wit11 tl~e other. ·Hr c ·.v~rc call 'd ashor(. by thr c youn,~· Indian~, who had kdk'd some clcc r, and, on putting them on .boa~cl, gc~ve them abo~1t on~ or two gills of whi. key, which mtox1cateJ all of thcn1. It con1nH.:nced raining about on" o'cl) k · l · .1 • ~ c c , tlllc conunueu Incessantly for thrc t' hours, w_I11ch obliged us to stop and encamp. Oue of our tncn (Mlllcr) lost himself, and did not arrive until ·tftcr dark. Killed five deer, one turkey, and one racoon. ~i::,~ tance 14 miles. . 30th July, vri!dncsday.-Aftcr the fon· di~pcrs ·d II -ft l1eute W'lk' . b nant I mson With th..... party to Jr)' the barrg·tg~'~ and I · I b ( ' , went Wit 1 Dr. Robinson and Bradley. About two o cl.o ck we r eturn e'd , se' t sa1'1 , anc l 11 avm• g passed the first ~~pld about thrc ... miles, encamped on the eastern shore. llled three deer. Distance 5 n1iles. . 31st July, Tbursday.-\Ve cr 1bark.ed early aud P1:ss(.'d several rapids pretty well. Dined with the Indian '. wo of them 1 'fi · h · h e t us In t c mornmg for the viilarre and t ey all h. J · . b ' e1 u dcd oth a, a·n . Idea of dmng the same but finally con- 0 ' . erwise. a ...· of the Osage, who had left the pal ty for th 'II " e VI age, rcturul'J and reportcxl that he lnd secn.and h"arcl str~utge lnJians in th~ woo,ls. ' considered 1 ~. This we.· l as mere Y a pretext to come oack. 1 this da\ ost my dog ·m l ·l . f. . , ' L . th.: nus ortunr wa" he ~Tctltrr <l" \VC h.1d / |