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Show APPENDIX TO PART II. and evening. The Spanish leader, further, drliverccl to Charactef· ish a v,·1 and medal, two ntules, and a commission l~c::u·ing the signa.tme of the governor, ci,il and ntilitary, of Santa 1· ce. lie <~lso had ~itniJ,tr n' urks of di!>tinction for the Grand Pawnees, the Pawnee Mahaws, 1\fah..t\\ s Proper, Otos and Kanses. On the Gth of October we mauc some few p11rchascs of mi· serable horses at the most CAorbitant prices, and on the 7th, un· moved by t 11 c: threats of the chief relative to our proceed in~ l~u·th cr to the west, \\ c marched in a close and compact body unul we pa-,~t c1 tlwir , illage, and look the h.rge ~panish beaten trace for the. Ad-.dn!Saw ri' t:l'. \V c passed the following day, an encampment o[ tile Sp.•n 1rds, where we count d sixty-nine fires. On the 9th, as \J!)Ua•, n1adc an ea~y ntarch, alld about noon, when we h i.dted to I'~· f1 {'o.,h ou1 sch·c·s, were overtaken by three hundred Pawnees, on thell' \\ ;H to tht' salines or the Kanses to hunt buff.llo. Their C\'CI'Y act sJ,t. wt d a strung disposllion to quancl, and in fact they seemed to cou rl ho'il i ut y ; uut, lindi n g us V\ ithout fear and prepared, to a man, the\ (, ff\·1 ·d no outrage, and having grazed out· horses an hour, we p , .H 11 trom thi::. turbulent band, slung out· packs ancl proceeded on to ~olonH,n's Fol'l~ of the Kanses, and pitched our tcuts on an old t.nca1 pn.cnt of tl.c Sp:..u iards, who~c tr~ce we were following, as ,, 1 lo11nd the next morning n1any tent-pins made of wood, dilTcr~nt frc1tt 1ll)' in that country. At mid-clay lieutenant Pike, Dr. Robm- 51 n ,mq tht• interpre ter llaroney, pushed on to search for water, and I ,.,~lll•li •{·cl with the troops. I pmhcd on as briskly :~s om· poor blf.;,.tni-;J,ed horses would permit, and at night fall could discovet 110 1 1111' or 1r. Pike, and had llOt a tree in \icw. This induced me to qll ic.l,t.:ll "'Y p cc, and, us darkness hud rendered my compass usc- . 1. • ~ overcast In,:-; 1 l Clllll'scd h\ the t•olar slat'; but the hol'l~On uecom111g • ' I 1.ul cu on a n.tlu~d stony prairie, without water or grass for our h ot ~t:s. On the followitl~ morning I directed my course more to tl c ::;outhward, ami about tell o'clock came t<J the creek and en· can•pmcnt ol lieutenant Pike. Late in the C\'ening of the same thl), after pa'>~ing over a mouutainous u·act of country, we reached I til' Gt·Jud SaJine, which we found so stron!~ly impregnated, us .to , 11 ncr uupah.IUtblc corn, wheu botled in it. On the 12th after a diS· , ... ..,.,jng cl.ty's mm ch, we reach eel the Second, or Smull Saline, and ')I: tl tc . foii<J\\ing day encamped on the most western branch of the I:.Z..•IISCS ri\ ' !'. . \\' c we rc dctaint·d, on the morning of the 1 :.>th, by a ~mall rat~, t,~ 1 t a'> u· me "us pre stng-, "e ma c 1lC 'C1 a1u. out noon, c· rosscd the dl.· vidlll!:) ridge ol the K<H1scs aucl Arr~au~aw rivers, aud halted on a APPENDIX TO PART II. !)mall branch of the lattet·. Fo1· seveml days past we had been so bewildered by buO'alo paths, that we lost the Spanish trace, a11d t hjs being an object of moment, we r·csolvcd to make sear-ch for it. Accordingly, on the following clay at noon, Mr. Pike and Dr·. Rot inson stt•ttck oil' from the party a clue w st course, and I marrhed the detachment for a cop e of wood, which we could ba~·l'ly clisccm i 11 tile south-west, and reached it about midnight. At day-l.>J eak 1 was awoke by my old and fai thf'11l Osag·c, who informed me that we were on the banks or the J\1'1 ansaw 1·iver. I immcdiatly arose, and dis<: ovet·ed my tent to have been pitch c1 0 11 the marg-in of a w.~tc r·coursc, nearly folll' hundt·ed yards wide, with bank'i not three ft·et h~gh, and a stream of watcJ· nrnning- throu gh it about twenty l'cl' t in Wldth, and not mot·e than six or e ight inches deep. . I remaine.d here four clays in great anxiety and 'il.lspcncc, as ncnheJ• .Mt·. Ptke nor Dr. Ho:)inson mad · their appeara11 cc, nor could be found, althoug-h l had all my hunter~ out i11 search of them. Out I was agreeably surprisocl on the fifth duy, curly in the 1nol'llillc" by theit· an·ival. It .tppcarcd our apprehensions were mutu.d, ~~; they expected I had been cut off, and I believed tltey had bccu mu1·dered. On the 17th it commenced raining; and continued for· sevrr·al days, during which time the river J'O ·c so much as to fill its bed from bank to bank; unci lieutenant Pike having determined thul i should desce~1cl the Arkansaw, we cut down a sm<~ll green cotton'~ ood, anc~ wtth much labor split out a canoe, which being insulliClent, we form ed a sccon.d or buffalo and elk skin<;. Af'tct· the ruin had ceased the weather became extrcmtly cold and on t.hc 27th, in the evening, a severe snow-storm cotnme 11 c...:d: and contmucd nearly all ni~·ht. In the moming· the rivet· was alnwst C~loakcd with dr·ifting i~e ; but the sun bursting· out at noon, the ice d.Jsappcared, and I took leave of Mr. Pike, who n1archcd up the l'lver at the moment 1 embarked on board my newly constru ct~cl canoe; but, unfortunately, we had not pl'<JC ceded more than one hun' llr·ecJ yal'Cis when my boats g rounded, and the men w · t'C obli!;ecl to drag them thr·ough sand and icc five miles, w a copse of wo~cls 0 11 tl;c south-wcstcm bank. I here hauled up my canoe, formed a l,iud 0 a cabin of it, and wrapped myself up in my buH~llo robe, lli 'i· Jl,c arten. c cI ·<~ ll d cr t ssntJ·! l fi eel w·i th the commcnccm{!nt of my voyd~,c. 1 he ntght was severely cold, and in the morning· the ri Vt; l' was so fulloficeastop· t·ll 'b'J' f · ~ • • 1 even a poss1 1 tty o pt·occcdtng. fllc day con l.inucd stormy, wit.h snow from the north-west. |
