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12 - crossed out 28 store, which they have so happily been laying up for a few years past. And at the same time the coffers of the rich have been filled to overflowing. The master of the steam boat which took our dear friends to Mussle shoals, had, it is said, four thousand Dollars a trip, making eight thousand Dollars in sixteen days.

On this day we were called to follow the remains of a poor Indian woman to the grave. A few days ago some families obtained permission to camp near us, and among them were two persons brought on litters, nearly gone with the consumption. One of these was a woman, a little past the middle age, and the other a young man. On Friday we were told that the woman was apparently dying. I went to her camp. She enquired if I thought she was dying. I knelt down and prayed for her dear departing spirit. I was at once overcome, and wept aloud, and thus my prayer was almost made up of unclear -lined out of weeping. She seemed prepared for her departure.

June 18. Today we were called to perform the funeral obsequies of a little child who died with the bloody flux. His afflicted mother was permitted to fetch him from the camps this morning, though then apparently in the agonies of death.

On the 19th the young man mentioned above was carried to the grave, and on the 20th a middle aged woman followed. This woman had long been afflicted with swelling in her limbs, so as to render her almost entirely unable to walk. When the soldiers were in the neighbourhood,