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Show 148 JOURNAL OF A VOYAt;~ St!J October, Sunday.-Buying horses. Preparing t0 tnarch, and finishing my letters. Gtb October, Monday.-Marched my express. 1· Pur-chasing horses and preparing to march o:l the morrow. . 7tb Octo/;er, 'fuesday.-In the mormng fo~md two of. our newly purchased horses missing. Sent Ill search of thenl: the Indians brought in one pretty early. ~tn~ck our tents and commenced loading our horses. Jtmchng there wa~ no probability of our obtaining the other lost one, we marchecl at two P. M. and as the chief had threatened to stop us by force of arms, we had 1nade every arrangement to make him pay as d ar for the attempt as possible. The party was kept compact, and marched on by a road round the village, in order that if at tacked the savages would not have their hou~es ~o ~ y to for c~nrcr. I had given orders not to fire until wlthm five or srx paces, and then to charge with the bayonet and sabre, when 1 believe it would have cost them at least 100 men to have exterminated us (which would ha e been neces.,ary) the village appeared all to be in motion. I galloped up to the lodge of the chief, attended by my interpreter and one soldier but soon saw there was no serious attempt to be made, ~lthough many young 1ncn were walh.ing ab~ut with their bows, arows, guns and lances. After ~pcakmg to the chief with apparent indirfcrenc , I told him that I calculated on his justice in obtaining the horse, and that 1 should leave a man until the next day at 12 o'clock to bring him out. vVe then joined the party aml pursu:d our route: when I was once on the summit of the hill which overlooks th village, I felt my mind as if relieved from a heavy burthen ; yet all thC' evil I wished thr Pawnees was that I might be the instrument in the hand~ • Sec Appendix to part ll. [No. 13.] pag~ 45· [No. I4·] page 47· TO TIIE SOUflCES OF TJ IE AHK A ~ SA ' V, &c. 149 of our government, to open their cars and c1,c.r with a strong ba ~7fl, to convince them of our power. -() ur party now consisted of two officers, one doctor, 1 R soldiers one m. ter~reter, t hr ee Osage n1en and one woman, makin'g 25 warnors. We marched out and encamped on a sm~!ll branch, distant S"ven 1nilc , on the same route we cam in. Rain in the night. c 8tb October, llf'ednesday.-I conceived it best to send Baroney back to the village with a pre ·ent, to be ofrcred fo~ our horse, the chief_ having suggested the propriety of th~ measure; he met h1s son and the horse with Sparks. Marched at ten o'clock, and at Ic)ln· o'clock cam to the place w~ere the Spanish troops encamped the first night tl:ey left the Pawnee village. Their encampment was ctrcubr, and having only small fires round the circle to cook by. We counted 59 fires ; now if w allowed six men to each fire, they must have been 3.?4 in nun1ber w . ····· r e en.campcd on a large branch of the second fork of the Kans nver. Distance J 8 tniles. . 9th ~rtobcr, Tlmr~day.-Marched at eirrht o'clock bemg dct· d ·I I · 0 ' . ,une unti t 1at time by our hor ·es bcinrr at -1 great d n c. ' " ISt~nce. 1\.t elt·ven o'clock we found the forJ\:s oi the Spamsh and P· 1 1 awnee roac s, anc when we halted at twelve o' I k ' I k c oc ' we were overtaJ~cn by the second chief (or ~ ;Jtappe) and the An1erican chief with one-third of the Vlllage. They presented us with a pice of bear n1eat. When we were ·1b · h (. out to march, we c.h cover d that the dirk of t e do:tor had been stolen frmn behind his saddle . after marchmg th . 1 ' e men t 1e doctor and myself, with the interpreter went t th l . f ,, ' o e c ue and " demanded that he should cause a search t b . d.·'' . ul.r k was fo d h0 e ma c , It was done ' but when the it h un ' t e pos essor asserted that he had found on t e ro·ld . I ld h.. . " t. l < ' to m1 " that he did not spe·tk the l ut l, ,, and i {; . ~ n ormed the c1ucf that we never suffered a |
