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Show PAWNBE H0R8E- THIKVES. 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- swelled 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 hatfula. 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, bouAd on a trading expel dition among the Sionx, . 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 Frfemont, Great and* Little Nemahas are the waters of Turkey Greek, and flow into the Blue to the north of the road. v. 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, moat 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 ( Enothera occurred on the bottoms of the streams, with Digitali* and Loasanitida.. Phlox, once abundant, is becoming scarce. Monday, June 11.- Bar. 28.56; Thar. 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. Sight 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 compagnons de voyage on the Missouri. After crossing Ketchum's Creek, encamped. a short distance to the right of the road, |