Southern telegraph., 1836-12-20

anch0ly on the fair landscape that we we're
vanishing from forever Our horses brought
us to It's base, and then over the extended
plain that lies between that and the Tra-
verse De Sioux on the 81. Peters, with
about FIVE days travel Here we met (aud
passed through their villageS) The bands OF
Sioux, who had made us so much trouble on
our way to the Red Pipe. We met and
passed them without any other moIosiaiion
Than looks of hatred aud contempt, which
were 40 strongly expressed in their faces
and movements az to Snnay, snd sometimes
even to allrnus. A sallen silence seemed
to pervade all classes and all sizes, except
amoag the children, who cried at our ap-
proach, and the squaws, who clapped their
hands over their mouths, and backward re-
treated from our presence, with looks Of dis
tress and groans that were abhorrent.-
Their sacred rights had heon tram3led
upon-'heir reigiun invaded--and their
Wakons insulted by the ruthless feet Of white
men!
AT this place Our horses were left and we
committed our bodies and little travelling
conveniences TO the narrow compass Of a
little modest cauQe, that must mnSt evident
| ly have been dug out from the wrong side
Of the loy-that required us and every thing
in it to be exactly in The lotom-anl then,
10 hok straight forward and speak from the
middle Of our mouths or it was "t'oticr side
up" in an instant. In this we embarked,
with our paddles used as balance poles and
IprOpelers, (lficr drilling awhile in shoal
water, till we could "get the hang Of it,,
we started off upon the bosom of the ST. Pc
ter's, for the falls of s.. Anthony. Sans
accident VIC arrived, at 10 o'clock At night
Of the second day--and sans steamboat,
(Which we were in hopes to meet we were
obliged to trust to our little cral;, to carry
us through the magnificent windings of the
mighty Mississippi and Lake Pcpin to
Prairie Dn Chien, distance of 400 miles,
which | had travcrsed last summer in the
same river.
"Oh the drudgcry and toll Of padding our
iille canoe from this to Prairie DI Chen!
NE can never do ny"
"Ah well, never mind, my dear fellow
we must go it-lhcre is no other way
hut think ofthe pleasure Of snrh trip, ha
Our guns and our filing tackle will we
have in good order, and be masters Of our
hoa'--wc can shove it in every nook and
crevirc-exp'ere the caves in The rocks
ascend mount StrOmbolO,' and lingsr along
the sparkling shores Of Like Pepin to oGr
hearts content" ''.
"Wcll, lam perfectly agreed ,ha's fine,
| ly Jupiter--.hat's whit shall relish exact
1--WE willhave our awa fun, and truce
70 the labor and timc-lel's h,s.e and be
foi2n
Save catered for our vovagc-shooli
hands with our friends, and were again bal
anclng our skitish bark upon the gfcen wa
;ers m the Mississippi. We cncamped, (.s
| had done the summer bcf1re( along its
loncl ly banks, whose only music is the echo
ing war-sonJ that rises from the glimmcr-
ing campfire of the retiring savage, or the
cries Of the furnishing wolf that sits and
bitterly weepS in tremulous tones his i'm
patience for .hc crumbs that are to fall to
his lot.
Oh! but we cnjwed those moments, lid
We not Wood? | would ask Won in any part
of the world where circumstances sfal
throw this in your ay,)-'hosc nights o!
our voyage which ended days of peril and
fatiguc-when or harder was fnll-when
our coffee was good DUR mats spread anI
our mIsquetO bars over lis, which admitted
the cod and freshness of night, but screen.
ed the dow and babe defiincn 10 the buZ.
zing thousands Of shtrp-hiIlcd, winged tor
turers that were. kicking and humping fol
admisson, | spenk now of fair weather.
not Of the nights Of lightning and Of rain
Well pass them over--we had all kind,
though, and as we loi:cred ten davs on tn,
wav, wo examined and experimental OF
every thing, for the benefit Of mankind. W.
drew into our larder in addition to bas.
and wild fowls,) CLAIMS, snaiIs, frogs anc
! rattlc-snakes-he latter Of whirh, whcI
properly prepared, We found to be the MOS
delicious food of the land.
We were stranded upon the Eastcrr
shore of Lake Pepin, where head wind
held us three days at bay, and like solitu
nv Malays or Zealaud penguins, we stalkct
; along and about. its pebbIy shores till w
we're tired, befure we could, with security
|. lay our little trough upon its troubled sur
face. Wnen liberated from lis wind b1unf
shores, we busiIy piled our paddles, an,
:. nimllv sped our way til we were landod a
the footnf "Mount S;romboIo," as tho sol
diers call it, but properly donominated, il
French, La Montague qui ircdmpca rcda
7 We ascended It twitbout much trouble, an,
, enjoyed from its top enc The most mgnil
t iccnt panoramic views that the Westen
! world can fIrnish, and VIC would recon
D mend the tourist who has time to stop E,
: an hour or two, to 90 the summit, and enia
I, with rapture the splendor of the scene tina
! lies near and in distance all around him.
This mountain, or rather pyramid, is a
E anomaly in the country, rising, as it does
: about seven hundred feet from the waite
S and washed at It's base, all around, hy tn
] river which divides and runs each side off
E II is composed chiefly Of rock, and all il
: strata correspond exactly with those of tn
projecting promonitories on either side
: tho river Went length arrived safe
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