The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-11-20
SIR WILLIAM STEWARDS EXPEDITION.
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DEAR FRIENDS date here, from the Platte river,
a few miles below the confluence Of the North and
South forks. We are arrested in our homeward pro-
gress by having encountered last night yiolen, tenn
pest Of wind and ram, terminating in a snow storm
Sir William Stewart has decided to wait for better
weather, at the same time giyin, the hunters oppor-
tunity TO recruit our supplies of meat as we here
leave the buffalo region. Some gentlemen of the par
ty, however, resolve to go on, and send you this by
them. But that Captain Stewart proposes yet visit
to the Pawnees, in their grand vage-a chance that
! can by no means miss-my earnest Impotence to
be home again would hurry me along with this ad
vanced portion of our party
seize the chance, however to assure you of our
full safety, our speedy return home, and fine and
hourIshing condilin Of health. will prove to you
personally, your readers severaily panacea concoc
tors collectively, and all the doctors unequivoc ally
when | get home, that consumptvc persons must no
more sparkle, exhale," and goi Harana, but jump
into dresses OF deerskn, and trot of to the moun
talns We are the latest greasiest SET Of truant
rogues your liveIest imagination call up to view
we are the merriest, raggedest-peIhaps you would
add, the uglest--set Of buffalo butchers that ever
cracked rifle among the big hills Of Wind river.
III you can get any Of your mesmersers TO give you
cditroyanf view OF our caravan and cayalcade, for
the love OF all that groesque and curious drop oil
AT once into magnetic somnoency and lust take
look at us-do.
can only tell you now that have made the
most OF oui time during this alE-year's excursion
we have pierced the Western wilderness beyond
your log houses Of the /" Far West" some ten or
twelve hundred miles, where we have wandered
about fortnight or among the Businesses OF the
great Wind river chain of gigantic rocks we have
crossed the dividing ridge that forms the huge boun-
dairy wall from the decli,ilies of which start the
leapng waters o. the Atlantic and the Pacific and
we have briefly seen something of the Shawnees
Pa"nees, Deawares, Osages, Otoes Sioux, Chayen-
mes and Snakes. We now thus far homeward
safe and well having but fatal mishap TO record
One OF our number have left sleeping his last be-
meath the Red Buttes'-thc innocent victim Of a
frightu casualty lie was youth of fifteen named
Frenc"is Cirmiht. and has haple,s story you shall
know anon.
OF course we have had a fair share Of unsets
break downs, involuntary leaps from h,ing steeds
&C. but nothing else, that we may not all Iaugb at
when get home. We have had a little bru.L
with the rascally Chsyennes that We ma, t,u Of
which left some scalps flying long poles but our
own damage amounted only to the loss of three ami
mails. On another occasion lost two a mare
and a mule, stolen by some skulking Sioux, who
logged US for days. and al length aked upon us in
the night.
Good by imagine something Of our warnings
now for home, and be ready TO give Us warm wei.
come about the middle or latter end Of November
Ever truly yours, MFG