I know not whether you will find an army assembled there, to march again into our country; but I hope that peace has been settled.

It will take the tribes all the year to rebuild their houses.

It will be years before their flocks and herds increase to what they were before and, now they have found that British troops can force their way through their strongest passes, that they can no longer defy white men to enter their lands, they will be very careful not to draw down the anger of the white man upon themselves.

They will have a hard year of it to repair, in any way, the damages they have incurred; to say nothing of the loss of life that they have suffered.

They have also had to give up great numbers of their rifles; and this, alone, will render them careful, at any rate until they replace them; so I do not think that there will be any chance of fighting this year, or for some years to come.