These dogs, with six prairie-cocks killed this morning, formed a plentiful supply for the present.

We here left our guide and the two young men who had accompanied him, two of the three being unwilling to go any further, and the third being of no use, as he was not acquainted with the river below.

We therefore took no Indians but our two chiefs, and resumed our journey in the presence of many of the Sokulks, who came to witness our departure.

The morning was cool and fair, and the wind from the southeast." They now began again to meet Indians who had never before seen white men.

On the nineteenth, says the journal:-- "The great chief, with two of his inferior chiefs and a third belonging to a band on the river below, made us a visit at a very early hour.