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Show PAWNEE HORSE- THIEVES. 23 had selected the very best horses in both trains, all of which, to make the matter worse, happened to be private property. Effective measures should certainly be taken to punish and thereby pre* vent the occurrence of these outrages by a band of savages, who, although receiving a large annuity from the national treasury, take every opportunity to prey upon those under the protection of the government. Several large catfish and some soft- shelled turtle were caught in the stream by the men. The rich bottom in the rear of the camp produces strawberries of fine quality in the utmost profusion; the men gathered them by hatfuls. Two very large terrapins were also found here on the prairie. In the afternoon, the advance of a train from St. Joseph, belonging to Messrs. Bissonet and Badeau, bound on a trading expedition among the Sioux, passed the camp and halted on the bluff beyond. Mr. Bissonet, who is an old trader and appears to be well acquainted with the country, informed me that the stream called by our guides the Legerette is in fact the Nemaha; and that the streams called by Fremont, Great and Little Nemahas are the waters of Turkey Greek, and flow into the Blue to the north of the road. A section of about one hundred feet high, in a ravine on the south side of the river, showed the strata to be horizontal from north to south, with a dip of ten degrees to the west. The order of superposition was as follows:- Lower, most visible, red clay and sand; gray shales; blue limestone; gray limestone, and flint; white sandstone. They all contained fossils except the clay. A species of mallow and Oenothera occurred on the bottoms of the streams, with Digitalis and Loasanitida. Phlox, once abundant, is becoming scarce. Monday, June 11.- Bar. 28.56; Ther. 65°. At half- past five o'clock, a most violent storm of wind and rain set in, and raged with great fury for three hours. The tents were prostrated, and the baggage much wetted by the rain. Several . large trees were blown down, and one fell across an emigrant wagon close by us. The owners, who had sought refuge in it from the tempest, narrowly escaped with their lives. About nine, it cleared, and the tents were raised to allow them to dry. Eight miles from the Blue, we struck the emigration road from Independence. Here we found a company of seventy or eighty persons, with some twenty wagons, on their way to California, among whom I recognised several former eompagnons de voyage on the Missouri. After crossing Ketchum's Creek, encamped a short distance to the right of the road, |