Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-12-03
BOYTON'S LAST BATH.
His Trip DO wn the Yellowstone AM
Missouri Gives him Enough
of the Water.

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Missouri Gives him Enough ~
of the Water. L.,
From the Post Dispatch. Nov. e5.l :.
"When do you take to the water >,
aeaiuw asked reporter Of Captain y
Paul Boyton this morning. 1t may !,
be promised that Boyton has been re- -
naming quiet since his ianding Sun u
dsy, spending most Of his time on :,
board the little steamer which has !
been lying at the foot Of Washington
avenue. u
"Now, don't you talk to me about :
water" was the answer. 81 have had
enough of it, aud am through with
it,"
.Wbat! no more floating and rub.
ber suits, and all that kind OF thing
"No," said the captaiir 81 am sat
isliei with what l have done. NO
more long Journeys for me-"
GLOW did you enjoy the trip yeu
have just finished?"
at was the roughest and most mis-
cradle III all my experlence. Thought
when ran down the Tagus III opaih'
that had u pretty hard time. but nv
| l
the Upper Missouri beats il all hoi-
low ia a way of doing pensnce. Why,
1 have lost over forty pounds aud
have been sick nearly ali the time
since landed" III
"How long did this trip take you ~
"Just sixty-four days. l started |
from the head of Cedar creek, III |
Montana, down the Yellowstone and
the Missouri. / never had such jour |
ney. was alone in my journey till
I came to Bismarck ,and q moro lone.
some voyage never had i'll my life
/ Then l had to do considerable
amount of night running OH account
} of Indians and other reasons. Oh.
Lord, deliver me from another circus
7 of that nature"
"Were there no redeeming features
. at all p:'
"Well, L made formal call Oh Sit.
/, ting Bull, for instance, and was roy
: ally received by the officers at Fort
n Randall, where the old buck is
o prisoner. The manner OF my call
4 was as follows: The correspondent
d of the New York Herald aud
d a cAMPED ONE NIGHT
under q bluff near Fort Randall. In
u the morning squaw came down to
y the river to get water, saw me mev.
. ing around with the suit OH aud hed
IL for her life. In short while the viii
10 lage was alarmed and the bucks came
lie flocking from the tepees. The army
}. officers recognized me at once and, as
~ said before, treated me in princely
g. manner, but the Indians fought as shy
.. OF me as possible"
81 "How did Sitting Bull regard you ~
10 "Wi,h considerable suspicion for
D. some time. Bull is smart fellow,
we'll Informed, but it is singular hew
at superstitious he is. For in tance,
IL could not persuade him 10 touch the
ai suit for any consideration. He ex
70 amined it closely. aud walked around
ao it as it lay upon the ground, but nj
te hand upon it. He had all idea that i
all was sone Internal machine, or SOM
IT. trick, l do not know which, but hi
IT. had made up his mind not to be takel
TO- in by it,"
est "Was he very friendly 7''
no "Yes, after time. He is still cud
ne geliug his brains, believe, over tn
ne mystery of my floating in the water
* That stumped him completely. Oi
oer ten caught him gazing at me cur
'p. ously, once he felt ray arm very cart
DO fully, aud a couple of time he jsbbe
T.. bis knuckles into my chest aud sid
nas in strange manner"
he "What was he trying to do 2"
81 did not know at first, but foun
AXE out afterward. l learned throug
us. the interpreter that the old fraud hs
'al. been explaining all about my perfO
ced nance to the young bucks, and ha
It pretended to understand the who
ven secret. His theory was that my bod
are was all hollow aud filed with vim
OF otherwise could not float as di
OF The bodily examinations l referrt
dit to above were made for the purpo
ore Of confirming this theory, which W
han generally believed by the Indians"
ave "What has the old savage to say
ink himself 7"
10 "Oh, he wants to get his people
.ow gether and start them to farming.
lap says that as the Sioux were the la
The to quit fighting, they will distingui
the themselves as farmers if they q
The given q chance. He promises TO &
,ood ttem to wear clothes like white me
lite and to do every thing else that eau
expected of them. The fact of
business is
SITTING BULL
does not love captivity, aud he wOu
be willing to promise anything to {
ls no out of It,"
eve. CIT was rumored, captain, that S
edlt- ting Bull had you picked out al
he prospective son-iu-law."
now 1.-The ID ii was," calculated b
re- ton.
pect "Yes. and that he made you t.
ID to der Of the hand of his daughter"
SUBJ ooh, l swear, it did not 60 SO
4 to as that. You see, Sleeping Wa
1t OF was a fair sort of girl, il she '
re- copper -colored. She is about eightt
COM years of age, with black hair q
The eyes, and figure 1.-the aud as strail
duct as q reed. | know little of
lean. Sioux dialect, but there are seve
ed to words about the meaning OF whicl
.ated was little shaky. My Sioux vo
lings bulary was not very extensive, SO t
sit could not afford to be parsicul
lame and l used every word I knew
sonal Sleeping Water, aud perhaps n
,ould have used some of them more Il
. As once. Anyhow, we got to be pre-
,aper thick during the day l remained
slant the settlement. The correspond
II the of the Herald grew jealous aud WI
st be mean stories about me 10 his pal
psra- There was only one thing about
ON 1t girl that l did not get to like.
perly was too fond of plug tobacco and
class had no hesitation in asking fell
3 the for it, even OH the shortest acqu'
lation tance.''
t. II "Did you have any trouble with
want Indians during tho trip?"
t.well "No; none worth speaking of.
b one couple of times they were on
t and point Of shooting at US as we pas
itoral along near the shore, but we mana
heart. to get them to halt. A drunken
local low fired at us from the bank
meet above Alair, Omaha, and the 1
Q part spattered all around me in the Wa
access [ was about to return the complin
ID it is with round or two from my v
chester rifle, but heard the drum
fellows companion persuading
not to do 80 again, and l desisted
fear of killing the sober man, as
night was pretty dark. If the fel
ro. had been alone think l would