CHAPTER XXIV.
New Distribution of Horses--Secret Information of Treason in the Camp .-- Rose the Interpreter--His Perfidious Character-- His Plots .-- Anecdotes of the Crow Indians .-- Notorious Horse Stealers .-- Some Account of Rose .-- A Desperado of the Frontier.
ON the sixth of August the travellers bade farewell to the friendly band of Cheyennes, and resumed their journey.

As they had obtained thirty-six additional horses by their recent traffic, Mr.Hunt made a new arrangement.

The baggage was made up in smaller loads.

A horse was allotted to each of the six prime hunters, and others were distributed among the voyageurs, a horse for every two, so that they could ride and walk alternately.

Mr.Crooks being still too feeble to mount the saddle, was carried on a litter.
Their march this day lay among singular hills and knolls of an indurated red earth, resembling brick, about the bases of which were scattered pumice stones and cinders, the whole bearing traces of the action of fire.