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Show 260 JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE This day we passed the last Innuntains, and again entered the great Mississippi vali•-'Y, it b~'ing six months and tlurtcen days since we first caml! in ight of them. Distanc' 20 miles. 2Dtb May, Friday.-J\tlarchcd at seven o'clock and came to the riv 'r Millada and Rancho. 30tb May, Saturday.--fVIJrched at five o'clock and arrived at the- river Sabine at L'lght---.fordcJ it. M<uL, cd in the evening at four o'clock.. ~u ten encamped at the Second 1{idg without water. l)i ~ tanr " (! 7 miles. . D 1 .f! May, 811nda_v.-Marched arly and at nme o'clock 1 J J at a 1 , 11cho, a fine running water-course east anJ WL~t. 1\'larched eight miles further to a po.nt of woods and encamped. No water. l)istance ~:3 miles. J st June, Monday.-Arrived at th · Pnsidio Rio Grande at eight o'dock. This place was the position to which our friend Barelo was ordered, and which had been very highly spoken of to him, but he found himself miserably mistaken, for it was with the greatest difficulty we obtained any thing to cat, which mortified him extr ·m~ly. \Vh· u at Chihuahua, general Salcedo had asked me If I had not lost a man by desertion, to which I replied in the negative. lle then informed n1e that an Amer~can hadarrived at the Presidio Rio Grande in the last y ar: that he had at first confined him but that he was now released ' . and l,racticing physic, and that he wished me to exarnme him on my arrival : I therefore had hi1n sent for; the n10ment he entered the ro01n I discovered he never had rec ·ivcd a lib{'ral education, or been accustomed to polished society. l told him the reason tha 1 had requcste? to scl! hjm, and that I had it in tny power to sc.rvc him If I found him a character worthy of interference. lie tiH ·n related the following srory; "That his n:u1le " was l\1anin 1 I cw.kr~ou, that he was born in Rock Bndgc THROUGH TilE INTERIOR PHOVINCES, &c. 2G 1 " county, state of Virginia; that he had been brought up "a farmer, but, that coming early to the state of Ken" tucky and Tennessee, he had acquired a tastl' for a "frontier life, and that in the spring of l80G, himself and " four companions, had left the Saline in the J)istrict of " Saint Genevieve, Upper Louisiaua, in onlcr to pene" trate through the woods to the province of Texas; "that his companions had left him on the White River " and that he had continued on : that in swimming some' " western branch his horse sunk under him, and it was with " difficulty he had made the shore with his gun. I-Icrc " he waited two or thre days until his horse rose, and he " then got his saddle bags, but that all his notes on the "co un tr y, courses, & c. were destroyed. I Ie then pro- " cceded on foot for a few day , when he wa met by 30 ''or 40 Osage warriors, who on his telling them he wa~ " gom. g to t h e Spam. ards were about to kill him, but on "his saying he would go to the Americans, they held a " consu I tat1. 0n over h1' m, and finally seized on his clothe· " an d dI'V I' d ed them between them; then his pistols, com-' " pass, dirk and watch, which they took to pieces and " hung m· th u, ·r noses an d cars; then stn·p pcd hn. n c' n~1ked, and round his body they found a belt with gold " P1L'Ccs sewed in it ; this they also took, and finally st:izcd " 011 1 . Hs gun and ammunition, and were n1arching ofF to "" .le av.e him in that situation, but he followed them ' think-mg H better to be killed than left in that state to dil! b) "" 1l unger and cold. The savages after some time halted> " and lo n(:! pulled ofr an old pair of leo-g·ius and g··tve hin1 b~ ( , " anot 1er mockinsons, and a t hir<l a bu!Etlo robl', and rhe "one wl~o had carried his heavy rilk had by this time be-came tu·cd of his prize, (they nev ·r using· rifles) and ,, they c , .l I . , ,, ountcu um out ~.5 charge· of powder a11d ball, then sent t wo 1n d1 · ans wH· I1 l w· n who put him on a ,, ar |