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Show 1,10 JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE of them who owned a horse and had received a gun aonnde other pr'o perty for his hire, and to 1u-1 hu' n, " I kn ew his plans, and that if he was disposed to ~escrt, I sh~uld t:tke care to retain his horse ; that as for himself, he m1ght l~ave 111e if he pleased, as I only wanted men with us." lie replied, " that he was a man, tha_t he alw:1ys performed his promises, that he had never saH.l he would return, but that he would follow me to the Pawnee villagp, which he intended to do." lie then brought his baggage and put it under charge of the sentinel, and slept byr~ny fire; but notwithstanding 1 had him well watched. Killed one elk. Distance 10 miles. . 22d September, Monday.-W e did not m~rch un~1! eight o'clock, owing to the iuJi~pu~iLio1~ of lie~tcnant ~J!. kiuson. At cleveu waited to dine. Light mists of ram, with flying clouds. We marched again at three o'clock, and continued our route twelve miles to the first branch of the republican fork. Met a Pawnee hunter, who informed us that the chief had left the village the day after the doc· tor arrived, with 50 or GO horses and n1any people, and had taken his course to the north of our route; conse· qucntly we had missed each other. lie lil ewisc informed that the Tet~ws had recently killed six Pa\vnecs, the Kans had ~tolcn some horse~, and t 11 at a party of v0 00 Spaniards had lately been as br J.s the Sabine; but for what purpose unknown. ])istancc 11 miles. 23d September, Tucsday.-Marchcd early and passed a large fork of the Kans river, which I ~upposc to be the one gcncrall y called Solomon's. One of our horses fc11 into the water and wet his bad. llaJtetl at ten o'clock 011 a branch of this fork. W c marched al half past one o'clock, and encamped at sun-clown, on a stream where we had a great diDlculty to find water. \V e were over· TO THE SOURCES OV THE ARKANSA ,V, &c. 141 taken by a Pawnee, who encamped with us. lie offered J1is horse for our usc. Distance 21 miles. 24/b September, Wcdncsday.-W e could not find our horses until late, when we n1arched. Before noon 1net Frank (who had accompanied Dr. Robinson to the village) and three other Pawnees, who informed us that the chief and his party had only arrived at the village yesterday, and had dispatched thcn1 out in search of us. Before three o'clock we were joined by several Pawnees: one of them wore a scarlet coat, with a small medal of gencr:tl \Vashington, and a Spanish n1edal also. 'V\T e encan1pcd at sun-set on a middle sized branch, and were joined by several Pawnees in the evening, who brought us some buffalo meat. Here w saw some 1nulcs, horses, bridles and blankets, which they obtained of the Spaniards. Few only had brcccb clotbs, most being wrapped in buffalo robes otherwise quite naked. Distance 18 1nilcs. ' 25tb ~cptcmber, Thursday,-W c Inarchcd at a good ho~r, and m about eight miles struck a very large road on whtc~ the Spanish troops rC'tu rned and on whicl; we could yet dlScover the grass beaten down in the Jirection which they went. . When we arrived within about three nliles of the vlllage we were · 1 · · ~ .' 1 equestc( to remam, as the ceremony ol rccc1vmg the Os · h . :tgc 1nto t e towns was to be perlormccl here. There ,. 11 . 1 \'vas a sma c1rcu ar , pot, clear of grass, before which tl () d 1c sage sat own. \?if e w rc a small dis-tance in advance of the Indians. The Pawnees then aJ- \'anced to within a mile of us, and halted, divided into two troops and c·l ' h I·l 1 . l ' ' 111e on c,ac an ( at i ull charge, 1nakin o· all t lc g·cstures · d r · b ·l <lll pcr1ormmg the lllanccuvrcs of a real war c laJ·ge. They then encircled us arounJ, and the chief ,tdvanced in th . ., . . . ~ ccnti c and gave us h1s hand : h1s name WtlS Caracteri l II s 'J. c was accompanied by his two sons |
