This is certainly the case
south of the Red River, whatever it may be to the northward of it.
We halted an hour or two on reaching this beautiful table-land, to rest
ourselves and give our horses an opportunity to graze. Little villages
of prairie dogs were scattered here and there, and we killed half a
dozen of them for our evening meal. The fat of these animals, I have
forgotten to say, is asserted to be an infallible remedy for the
rheumatism.
In the evening, we again started, and encamped, an hour after sun-down,
upon the banks of a clear running stream. We had, during the last part
of our journey, discovered the tops of three or four high mountains in
the distance; we knew them to be "The Crows," by the description of them
given to us by the Wakoes.
Early the next morning we were awakened by the warbling of innumerable
singing birds, perched among the bushes along the borders of the stream.
Pleasing as was the concert, we were obliged to leave it behind and
pursue our weary march. Throughout the day we had an excellent road, and
when night came we had travelled about thirty-five miles. The mountains,
the summits of which we had perceived the evening before were now
plainly visible, and answered to the descriptions of the Wakoes as those
in the neighbourhood of the narrows of the Red River.
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