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I believe that [crosssed out: At the same time] the Witchitas, Waeos, Caddos, Penteghka Comanches, etc. who really deserve credit and encouragement for remaining faithful and endeavoring to become gradually self-sustaining by raising corn and stock - [crossed out: were] have been constantly neglected - their goods and supplies given to the wild tribes.

(Insert here paragraph in margin) [Crossed out: On my return I reached Fort Arbuckle July 4th and] I left that station again on the 6th and [crossed out: I took a new route] in coming here - took a new route [crossed out [from that Post to this one] traveling by compass in a North easterly course between the Seminole Agency road and the Old road via North Fort Town. I made the march in seen days, with a train - the measured distance being one hundred fifty-seven (157) miles, seventy-five (75) between Fort Arbuckle and he junction of Little River with the Canadian - eighty-two (82) from that point to this. It was impossible of course to find the very shortest and best route on one trip made in haste - but I obtained a good knowledge of the country between the two posts. An excellent road, mostly prairie not exceeding eighty (80) miles in length can with little labor be laid out in a nearly direct line from this post to the Canadian at the mouth of Little River. The Deep Fork and North Fork of the Canadian and the We-no-Ka - a branch of North Fork are the only streams of any size to be crossed. They are almost always fordable and the Wenoka which has the worst crossing and bottom can be avoided entirely by bearing a little East and crossing North Fork below its mouth.

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